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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... Church Fellowship rightly attended " Occasional Poems " Upon a Spider Catching a Fly " " Upon a Wasp Child with Cold ” " Huswifery " 74 76 77 78 80 84 87 68588888 " Upon Wedlock , and Death of Children " 89 From Preparatory Meditations ...
... 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 reconstruct the patterns of congregational church governance they ...
... church , the community structure which reinforced the religious , and even poetry , which could be em- ployed to order experiences and search them for meaning , to beg for grace , and to celebrate God's mercy . Many early colonists ...
... Church offices were sold and bought for gain , That Pope had hope to find Rome here again . For oaths and blasphemies , did ever ear From Belzebub himself such language hear ? What scorning of the saints of the Most High ? What injuries ...
... Church and stay the commonweal . So many obstacles came in their way , As puts me to a stand what I should say ; Old customs , new prerogatives stood on , Had they not held law fast , all had been gone , 165 Which by their prudence ...
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 |