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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... voice on a variety of themes . Discovering Anne Bradstreet , Edward Taylor , Timothy Dwight , Philip Freneau , and ... voices introduced here , but will recognize continuities as well in the spiritual searching and literary adventuring ...
... voices . Vast numbers of persons wrote poetry during the more than two hundred years surveyed in this anthology ; many achieved a few memorable poems , though few rivaled the five featured here in their total literary achievement . I ...
... voice : I cannot scent savours of pleasant meat , Nor sapors find in what I drink or eat : My arms and hands once strong have lost their might ; I cannot labour , much less can I fight . 420 My comely legs as nimble as the roe Now stiff ...
... voices raise And in their kind resound their Maker's 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 ...
... voice . My winter's past , my storms are gone , And former clouds seem now all fled , But if they must eclipse again , I'll run where I was succored . I have a shelter from the storm , A shadow from the fainting heat , 5 10 5 10 I have ...
Contents
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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 |