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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... sing in patriotic harmony . The reader will find great differences in the poetic voices introduced here , but will recognize continuities as well in the spiritual searching and literary adventuring of these artistic pilgrims . In ...
... to the chro- nology suggested by Ann Stanford in Anne Bradstreet , the Worldly Puritan : An Introduction to Her Poetry ( New York : Burt Franklin & Co. , 1974 ) , pp . 125-127 . From The Tenth Muse THE PROLOGUE 1 To sing of Introduction 13.
... sing of wars , of captains , and of kings , Of cities founded , commonwealths begun , For my mean pen are too ... sings , And this to mend , alas , no art is able , ' Cause nature made it so irreparable . 4 Nor can I , like that fluent ...
... sing ; Chief of the brood1 then took his flight To regions far and left me quite . My mournful chirps I after send , Till he return , or I do end : Leave not thy nest , thy dam and sire , Fly back and sing amidst this choir . My second ...
... sing , Some untoward boy at them do fling , Or whilst allured with bell and glass , The net be spread , and caught , alas . Or lest by lime - twigs they be foiled , Or by some greedy hawks be spoiled . O would my young , ye saw my ...
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 |