Early American Poetry: Selections from Bradstreet, Taylor, Dwight, Freneau, and BryantUniv of Wisconsin Press, 1978 M07 21 - 398 pages Here 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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... Americans " 226 " A Picture of the Times " 227 " The Deserted Farm - House " From The Miscellaneous Works " The Wild Honey Suckle " " The Indian Burying Ground " 229 231 232 " To an Author " 233 From Poems Written between Contents vii.
... Indian princess leaping from the forest with her poems stained by berry juice on birchbark or even the prospect of a wholly new art form , presided over by a successor to the nine Greek Muses . Sobering second thoughts would have come ...
... Indians , the forest , and other wilderness observa- tions later Americans find significant . This is a limitation which she shared with Winthrop , Bradford , and our other early writers . They recorded experience in their own terms ...
... Indian attacks still posed a real danger to the settlement , especially during King Philip's War in the 1670s . Taylor held out successfully against abandon- ment of the town after massacres at Deerfield and neighboring communities ...
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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 |