| Description |
xxiii, 952 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
The library of America ; 178 |
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Library of America ; 178.
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| Note |
"David S. Shields selected the contents and wrote the notes for this volume"--p. [vii]. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 881-941) and indexes. |
| Contents |
George Sandys -- Thomas Morton -- John Smith -- John Wilson -- William Bradford -- Christopher Gardiner -- Edward Johnson -- from the Bay Psalm book -- Roger Williams -- John Fiske -- Anne Bradstreet -- John Saffin -- Edmund Hickeringill -- Michael Wigglesworth -- Urian Oakes -- George Alsop -- Benjamin Tompson -- James Revel -- Edward Taylor -- Francis Daniel Pastorius -- John Norton Jr. -- Samuel Sewall -- Benjamin Harris -- John Danforth -- Cotton Mather -- Sarah Kemble Knight -- Robert Hunter -- Ebenezer Cook -- Lewis Morris II -- Benjamin Colman -- Tom Law -- Christopher Witt -- Henry Brooke -- Roger Wolcott -- Charles Hansford -- George Berkeley -- George Seagood -- Joseph Breintnall -- James Kirkpatrick -- Susanna Wright -- Richard Lewis -- Thomas Dale -- "Ralpho Cobble" -- James Sterling -- William Dawson -- John Adams -- Archibald Home -- Joseph Green -- Benjamin Franklin -- Mather Byles -- Jane Colman Turrell -- Mary Hirst Pepperell -- John Seccomb -- Anon. -- "Poor Julian" -- Jupiter Hammon -- John Osborn -- Thomas Cradock -- Charles Woodmason -- James Grainger -- Samuel Davies -- A.L.M. -- Thomas Clemson -- "Carolina, a young lady" -- Joseph Dumbleton -- William Livingston -- Samson Occom -- Anon. -- Anon. -- William Smith -- Hannah Griffitts -- Mary Nelson -- Mercy Otis Warren -- Lucy Terry -- Ned Botwood -- Henry Timberlake -- Benjamin Banneker -- Thomas Godfrey Jr. -- Annis Boudinot Stockton -- John Singleton -- Francis Hopkinson -- Jonathan Odell -- Thomas Paine -- Yankee Doodle -- Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson -- Robert Bolling -- Nathaniel Evans -- Joseph Stansbury -- William Billings -- John André -- John Trumbull -- Ann Eliza Bleecker -- Timothy Dwight -- Anon. -- Anne Hecht -- Philip Freneau -- David Humphreys -- St. George Tucker -- George Ogilvie -- Phillis Wheatley -- Lemuel Haynes -- Joel Barlow -- Royall Tyler -- Margaret Lowther Page -- Sarah Wentworth Morton -- Joseph Hopkinson -- Thomas Green Fessenden -- Charles Brockden Brown -- Robert Treat Paine Jr. -- William Munford. |
| Summary |
Presents a collection of early American poetry in a tribute to the diversity and range of poetic traditions from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and includes regional music ballads and Native American translations. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 17th century.
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American poetry -- 18th century.
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| Added Author |
Shields, David S.
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| ISBN |
9781931082907 |
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1931082901 |
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