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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... Poet " 306 308 310 311 314 315 " The Path " APPENDIX Michael Wigglesworth ( 1631-1705 ) 321 " God's Controversy with ... POETS AND TITLES 377 INDEX OF FIRST LINES 381 Preface THIS IS a major - figure anthology of American Contents ix.
... poets , each representative of a period in America's cultural development but distinctive as well , speaking in a ... poet's interests and forms . I have attempted , also , to let these five voices speak for various periods of our ...
... poets were all fine writers and made enduring contributions to American literature , I have tried to select and emphasize their best poems , confident that literary value tran- scends historical considerations . To make the poems useful ...
... poets . Her early writings show the strong influence of the amazingly learned and surprisingly popular French Calvinist poet , Guillaume de Salluste Sieur Du Bartas , as translated by Joshua Sylvester , though her later work reveals ...
... poets than the Bible and whose minds would be formed by Turner's frontier thesis and by modern research in anthropology . The American quality of Bradstreet's work lies in something more subtle than imagery or choice of subject matter ...
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 |