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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... praise in the clearest , most pleasing terms , but the Puritan valued literature for its didactic value more than its aesthetic charm , treated with suspicion any excessively sensuous imagery or artistic embellishment , and felt that ...
... praise , or thanksgiving - and generally found expression in simple lyric forms she might have noticed in her hymnal . “ Contempla- tions " called for a more complex but regularly repeated form , a variation of the Spenserian stanza ...
... praise , If e'er you deign these lowly lines your eyes , Give thyme or parsley wreath , I ask no bays ; This mean and unrefined ore of mine Will make your glist'ring gold but more to shine . ( 1642 ?; 1650 ) 3. The Muse of epic poetry ...
... praise or shame , so mine must be . Now age is more ; more good you may expect , But more mine age , the more is my defect . When my wild oats were sown and ripe and mown , I then received an harvest of mine own . My reason then bad ...
... praise , Whilst I , as mute , can warble forth no higher lays ? 10 When present times look back to ages past , And men in being fancy those are dead , It makes things gone perpetually to last , And calls back months and years that long ...
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 |