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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... Puritanism , two aspects of neoclassicism , and several approaches to romanticism . Each writer is , in some sense , both typical and transitional . Con- tinuities and changes may readily be studied by comparing poems by different ...
... Puritan preaching . They belonged to that reforming branch of the Church of England which tried to return to the simplicity of early Christianity by ridding the Anglican church of all vestiges of Roman Catholicism and by attempting to ...
... Puritan autobiography ; she had heard others record their trials , doubts , failures , and awakenings in similar terms , and she watched an- xiously over the spiritual odyssey of each child . Life , for the Puritans , was a pilgrimage ...
... Puritan exiles in Switzerland in 1560 and the Authorized Version of 1611. Her poetry also reflects its period in its early preference for intellectual and even academic subject matter and in its use of wit and fun with wordplay , its ...
... Puritan people who colonized New England , with their values , their psychology , their blind spots , and their distinctive insights . Her poetry expresses , better than any other colonial verse , the human experience of Puritanism and ...
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 |