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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... beauty of the natural world , indicating that Anne Bradstreet could and did respond powerfully to the rivers , trees , and wildlife of her environment . She meditates on nature in this poem , however , only as a means of revealing ...
... beauty where's a main defect : My foolish , broken , blemished Muse so sings , And this to mend , alas , no art is able , ' Cause nature made it so irreparable . 4 Nor can I , like that fluent sweet tongued Greek , 2 Who lisped at first ...
... beauty ? No that's but à snare , They're foul enough today , that once were fair . What is't in flow'ring youth , or manly age ? The first is prone to vice , the last to rage . Where is it then , in wisdom , learning , arts ? Sure if on ...
... beauty by his works we know ? Sure he is goodness , wisdom , glory , light , That hath this under world so richly dight ; More heaven than earth was here , no winter and no night . 3 Then on a stately oak I cast mine eye , Whose ...
... beauty , and delight . 7 Art thou so full of glory that no eye Hath strength thy shining rays once to behold ? And is thy splendid throne erect so high , As to approach it , can no earthly mould ? How full of glory then must thy Creator ...
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 |