| Edition |
[1st ed.]. |
| Description |
xxxvi, 541 pages 21 cm. |
| Series |
The Anchor seventeenth-century series, ACO-12 |
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Anchor seventeenth-century series ; ACO-12.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-522). |
| Contents |
To my dear and loving husband / Anne Bradstreet -- A few lines to fill up a vacant page / John Danforth -- Vigilantius / Cotton Mather -- Mr. Ward of Anagrams thus / Nathaniel Ward -- The sea marke / Captain John Smith -- To the memory of the learned and reverend, Mr. Jonathan Mitchell / Francis Drake -- To the learned and reverend Mr. Cotton Mather, on his excellent Magnalia / Grindall Rawson. |
| Summary |
The poetry of the early American colonists covers a wide range of expression, including love lyrics, religious meditation, political satire, elegies and personal narratives. The colonists took care to note for posterity not only what was happening but what they felt about it; thus their poetry is in effect a diary of the period, relating political quarrels, religious controversies, and everyday preoccupations such as Indian attacks, births and deaths, witchcraft and the New England terrain. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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American poetry -- Colonial period.
(OCoLC)fst01711008
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| Chronological Term |
1600-1775
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