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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... literary forms , varying personalities , and drastically differing attitudes toward man's place in the universe . Even within the supposedly rigid theology of New England Puri- tanism , he will find surprisingly different ideas and ...
... literary value tran- scends historical considerations . To make the poems useful to college students in colonial litera- ture courses and surveys of American poetry , I have provided introductory essays on each writer , annotation to ...
... The Author to Her Book " ) , but she would hardly have described herself as an American or conceived of an enduring New World literary tradition . Anne Bradstreet had been born in England in 1612 and 3 Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
... literary fashions . She had read Raleigh , Sidney , Spenser , and possibly Shakespeare , and she studied books of astronomy , anat- omy , history , and religion as eagerly as she read her favorite poets . Her early writings show the ...
... literary era successfully and with imagination . That she so often chose clarity over complexity and simplicity over sophistication tells us much about the Puritan's ambivalence toward art . The inherent Puritanism of Anne Bradstreet's ...
Contents
3 | |
62 | |
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 |