Early American Poetry: Selections from Bradstreet, Taylor, Dwight, Freneau, and Bryant

Jane Donahue Eberwein

University of Wisconsin Press, 1978 - 383 من الصفحات

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.
Five major literary figures are spotlighted: Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672), Edward Taylor (1642?"-1729), Timothy Dwight (1752-1817), Philip Freneau (1752-1832), and William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878). An introduction to each chapter summarizes the life of the poet, reviews his or her literary career, describes and evaluates artistic achievement, and places the poet in an intellectual context. The writer's relationship to changing religious, philosophical, political, and cultural patters is established. The contemporary perspective is augmented by the inclusion of an appendix which presents three important poems by other writers: Micheal Wigglesworth's "God's Controversy with New England," Ebenezer Cook's The Sot-Weed Factor, and Joel Barlow's "Hasty Pudding."
Eberwein goes beyond the most popular and familiar works to include those of unrecognized literary merit, presenting a thoroughly unique approach which illuminates the full range of the writers' themes, forms and poetic voices.

المحتوى

• ANNE BRADSTREET 16121672: 3
• From The Tenth Muse: 14
• A Dialogue Between Old England and New: 29
• From Several Poems: 40
• From the Andover Manuscript: 56
• EDWARD TAYLOR 1642?1729: 70
• Occasional Poems: 85
• 56 Meditation Joh 15 24 Had I not done: 113
• 142 Meditation Can 6 9 My Dove is One: 119
• PHILIP FRENEAU 17521832: 190
• From The Poems of Philip Freneau: 201
• The Deserted FarmHouse: 230
• From Poems Written between the Years 1768 1794: 235
• From A Collection of Poems on American Affairs: 243
• From The Fredonian: 252
• Michael Wigglesworth 16311705: 321
• Ebenezer Cook c 1670c 1732: 339
• Joel Barlow 17541812: 362
• INDEX OF POETS AND TITLES: 377

معلومات المراجع

• العنوان: Early American Poetry: Selections from Bradstreet, Taylor, Dwight, Freneau, and Bryant; Early American Poetry: Selections from Bradstreet, Taylor, Dwight, Freneau, and Bryant, Jane Donahue Eberwein
• المُحرر: Jane Donahue Eberwein
• المساهم: Jane Donahue Eberwein
• الناشر: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978
• رقم ISBN (الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب): 0299074404, 9780299074401
• عدد الصفحات: 383 من الصفحات