Early American Poetry: Selections from Bradstreet, Taylor, Dwight, Freneau, and BryantUniv of Wisconsin Press, 21/07/1978 - 398 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. |
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... , 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.
... human destiny , death , and poetry itself . Believing as I do , however , that these five major poets were all fine writers and made enduring contributions to American literature , I have tried to select and emphasize their best poems ...
... human experience of Puritanism and helps us to see its influence on the early settlers and their descend- ants . The Puritan , like the Anglican , Catholic , or almost any other seventeenth - century man , lived with a constant ...
... human experience , and the Puritan involved himself actively in the duties of family life , citizenship , and his trade . Material achievements could hardly earn his way to heaven , he realized , but success in earthly responsibilities ...
... human beings , even when not exactly evil , are always severely limited in their capacities for good . Her poems reflect the psychological dilemma caused by such beliefs . Knowing herself radically flawed , she hoped for salvation ...
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Edward Taylor 1642?1729 | 62 |
Timothy Dwight 17521817 | 121 |
Philip Freneau 17521832 | 190 |
William Cullen Bryant 17941878 | 254 |
Appendix | 319 |
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