Early American Poetry: Selections from Bradstreet, Taylor, Dwight, Freneau, and BryantHere is the first major-figure anthology of American poetry of the colonial and early national periods, an indispensable volume for both students and scholars of American literature and civilization. |
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... spirit of the Revolution force Dwight and Freneau to sing in patriotic harmony . The reader will find great differences in the poetic voices introduced here , but will recognize continuities as well in the spiritual searching and ...
... spirit which Bradstreet valued more and which she eventually recorded for her children . As a young girl of six or seven , she had come to an awareness of her sinful nature and had striven to amend her ways until adolescence directed ...
... spirit would have been less terrible , certainly , if man were naturally good or if grace trans- formed his human nature directly to a state of perfection . Puritans knew that God's ways were different , however , and Introduction 9.
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Contents
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Timothy Dwight 17521817 | 121 |
Philip Freneau 17521832 | 190 |
William Cullen Bryant 17941878 | 254 |
Appendix | 319 |
Index of Poets and Titles | 377 |
Index of First Lines | 381 |
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Early American Poetry: Selections from Bradstreet, Taylor, Dwight, Freneau ... Jane Donahue Eberwein No preview available - 1978 |