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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... light of the debates among the elements , humors , and seasons . All four debates interrelate according to a medieval system of correspondences : Season Element fire earth Humor choler melancholy Age middle age old age summer autumn air ...
... light the air . No wooden horse , but one of mettle tried , He seems to fly or swim , and not to ride . Then prancing on the stage , about he wheels , But as he went , death waited at his heels . The next came up in a much graver sort ...
... light , That yet my bed in darkness is not made , And I in black oblivion's den now laid . Of aches full my bones , of woe my heart , Clapt in that prison , never thence to start . Thus I have said , and what I've been , you see ...
... Light Christendom , and all the world to see We hate Rome's whore with all her trumpery . Go on brave Essex19 with a loyal heart , Not false to king , nor to the better part ; But those that hurt his people and his crown , As duty binds ...
... light , Thy visage was so irksome in my sight ; Yet being mine own , at length affection would Thy blemishes amend , 2 if so I could : I washed thy face , but more defects I saw , And rubbing off a spot still made a flaw . I stretched ...
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 |