Richard “Citizen” Lee

Richard “Citizen” Lee published Flowers from Sharon (London, 1794), some of which originally appeared in the Evangelical Magazine in 1793-94 under the signature “Ebenezer.” Lee appears in Edwin F. Hatfield’s The Poets of the Church (New York, 1884),  384-85, who described his theological sentiments as “thoroughly orthodox.” In Henry Colbourn’s Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1816), he is briefly described as “a political and religious fanatic” (200).