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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... nature , the sentimental view of man , and the comforting philosophy which they expected in poetry . The rediscovery of English metaphysical verse in the early twentieth century which revitalized interest in American Puritanism and the ...
... nature made it so irreparable . 4 Nor can I , like that fluent sweet tongued Greek , 2 Who lisped at first , in future times speak plain . 5 13 10 15 20 20 1. Guillaume de Salluste Sieur Du Bartas , author of La Sepmaine ( 1578 ) and La ...
... nature . The second , frolic , claims his pedigree From blood and air , for hot and moist is he . The third of fire and choler is composed Vindicative and quarrelsome disposed . The last of earth , and heavy melancholy , Solid , hating ...
... natural disasters , these were often interpreted by the Puritans as God's punishment for the nation's sin . 3. In lines 91-102 reference is made to the impending civil war in England , with Puritan pressure against the king and the ...
... nature would , God grant to yours and you ; The many faults that well you know I have Let be interred in my oblivious grave ; If any worth or virtue were in me , Let that live freshly in thy memory And when thou feel'st no grief , as I ...
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 |