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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... fruit but of some few hours , curtailed from her sleep and other refreshments . ” 3 Paralleling the life which can be summarized in conventional 2. “ An Epitaph on my dear and ever - honoured Mother Mrs. Dorothy Dudley , who deceased ...
... fruits of reformed Protestantism . This commitment to material duties reflects itself in Bradstreet's poetry as does the emphasis on family for which Puritans were known in England and the joy in sexual love which made pleasur- able the ...
... fruits a basket on his arm , His golden god in's purse , which was his charm . And last of all to act upon this stage Leaning upon his staff came up Old Age , Under his arm a sheaf of wheat he bore , An harvest of the best , what needs ...
... fruits Of more than thou canst hear or I relate , That with high hand I still did perpetrate , For these were threatened the woeful day I mocked the preachers , put it far away ; The sermons yet upon record do stand That cried ...
... fruit to be , To see those latter days of hoped for good , Though now beclouded all with tears and blood . After dark Popery the day did clear , 200 205 210 But now the sun in's brightness shall appear . Blest be the nobles of thy noble ...
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 |
Early American Poetry: Selections from Bradstreet, Taylor, Dwight, Freneau ... Jane Donahue Eberwein No preview available - 1978 |