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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... fire deprived the poet of family treasures , valued for their sentimental associations more than for their material worth . It is obvious from her writing that Anne Bradstreet loved this life intensely and clung passionately to such ...
... fire and choler is composed Vindicative and quarrelsome disposed . The last of 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 ...
... fire , sometimes in water fall , Strangely preserved , yet mind it not at all : At home , abroad my danger's manifold , That wonder ' tis , my glass till now doth hold . I've done ; unto my elders I give way , For ' tis but little that ...
... fire : And by ambition's sails I was so carried , That over flats , and sands , and rocks I hurried , Oppressed and sunk and staved all in my way That did oppose me , to my longed bay . My thirst was higher than nobility , I oft longed ...
... fire , Their miters , surplices , and all their tire , 16. Biblical hero who led Israel against the Midianites ( Judg . 6 : 11ff ) . 220 225 17. " Curse ye Meroz : ( said the Angel of the Lord ) curse the inhabitants thereof , because ...
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 |