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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... give pleasure , still speak to the modern reader of valid emotional and intellectual percep- tions . Like any literature , her poems reflect the culture of her time , specifically that of post - Elizabethan England . Her British educa ...
... give eloquent testimony to the Puritan's capacity for physical love even as they advise that the fulfillment of that love can only be found in eternal life . The dominant feeling of Bradstreet's poetry , in fact , is that of tension ...
... Give thyme or parsley wreath , I ask no bays ; This mean and unrefined ore of mine Will make your glist'ring gold but more to shine . ( 1642 ?; 1650 ) 3. The Muse of epic poetry . 40 45 OF THE FOUR AGES OF MAN upon 1 Lo now The Tenth ...
... give precendency , And to the rest his reason mildly told , That he was young before he grew so old . To do as he , each one full soon assents , Their method was that of the Elements , That each should tell what of himself he knew ...
... give way , For ' tis but little that a child can say . Youth My goodly clothing , and my beauteous skin Declare some greater riches are within : But what is best I'll first present to view , 135 140 145 And then the worst in a more ugly ...
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 |