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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... Nature " 247 " On the Religion of Nature " 249 " Stanzas to a Caty - Did " 250 From The Fredonian " A Fragment of Bion " 252 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT ( 1794-1878 ) 254 Poems " The Yellow Violet " 266 " Inscription for the Entrance to a ...
... , both typical and transitional . Con- tinuities and changes may readily be studied by comparing poems by different writers confronting shared themes : nature , religion , human destiny , death , and poetry itself . Believing xi Preface.
... nature and had striven to amend her ways until adolescence directed her mind toward carnality . A serious attack of smallpox , however , restored her thoughts to God , and the responsibilities of marriage helped her to live the pious ...
... have been less terrible , certainly , if man were naturally good or if grace trans- formed his human nature directly to a state of perfection . Puritans knew that God's ways were different , however , and Introduction 9.
... nature in this poem , however , only as a means of revealing , over and over , man's limitations in his own natural state and his need of grace by which God offers him the immortality that sets him above all other creatures . Poetry ...
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 |