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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... hope that this anthology will encourage students to read more deeply and widely in American poetry before the nineteenth century and in the prose of William Bradford , Cotton Mather , Samuel Sewall , John Woolman , Jonathan Edwards ...
... hope for salvation . The path to salvation led through this world of ordinary human experience , and the Puritan involved himself actively in the duties of family life , citizenship , and his trade . Material achievements could hardly ...
... hope . This was mine innocence , but ah ! the seeds Lay raked up of all the cursed weeds Which sprouted forth in mine ensuing age , As he can tell that next comes on the stage : But yet let me relate before I go The sins and dangers I ...
... hope Such empty seed should yield a better crop ; 205 210 215 220 225 230 235 Then with both hands I grasped the world together . Thus out of one extreme into another , 240 But yet laid hold on virtue seemingly ; Who climbs 22 Anne ...
... alliance can I now have hope , But what I have done well , that is my prop ; 9. Kidneys . 10. Painful urination . 11. " Old men are children twice over . ” 340 345 He that in youth is godly , wise , and The Tenth Muse 25.
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 |