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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... my husband , Robert Eberwein , for his consistent helpfulness . Without them , this book would surely have run " more hobbling than is meet . " Acknowledgments I ACKNOWLEDGE , gratefully , the cooperation of editors xii Preface.
... meet . The sentence past is most irrevocable , A common thing , yet oh , inevitable . How soon , my Dear , death may my steps attend , How soon't may be thy lot to lose thy friend , 5 We both are ignorant , yet love bids me These 40 ...
... meet ; In better dress to trim thee was my mind , But nought save homespun cloth i ' th ' house I find . In this array ' mongst vulgars may'st thou roam . In critic's hands beware thou dost not come , And take thy way where yet thou art ...
... meet . My great Creator I would magnify , That nature had thus decked liberally ; But Ah , and Ah , again , my imbecility ! 9 I heard the merry grasshopper then sing . The black - clad cricket bear a second part ; They kept one tune and ...
... meet , So hand in hand along with thee they glide To Thetis ' house , 3 where all embrace and greet . Thou emblem true of what I count the best , O could I lead my rivulets to rest , So may we press to that vast mansion , ever blest ...
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 |