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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... present herself as the melancholy earth waiting for the quickening heat of her loving sun in a world where the seasons have been reversed by his travels southward . Despite her humble disclaimers in " The Author to Her Book Introduction 11.
... earth , and heavy melancholy , Solid , hating all lightness and all folly . Childhood was clothed in white and green to show2 His spring was intermixed with some snow : Upon his head nature a garland set Of primrose , daisy and the ...
... earth can give no consolation sound ; To great , to rich , to poor , to young , to old , To mean , to noble , fearful , or to bold : From king to beggar , all degrees shall find But vanity , vexation of the mind . Yea , knowing much ...
... earth a consolation sound " ? What is't in honour to be set on high ? No , they like beasts and sons of men shall die , And whilst they live , how oft doth turn their fate ; He's now a captive that was king of late . What is't in wealth ...
... Earth this season , mourn in black , My Sun is gone so far in's zodiac , Whom whilst I ' joyed , nor storms , nor frost I felt , His warmth such frigid colds did cause to melt . My chilled limbs now numbed lie forlorn ; Return , return ...
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 |
Early American Poetry: Selections from Bradstreet, Taylor, Dwight, Freneau ... Jane Donahue Eberwein No preview available - 1978 |