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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 8 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 9: the beginnings of verse, 1610-1808 (search)
istory of the world. Her Four elements, constitutions, ages of man, and seasons of the year, almost equally worthless as poetry, is an interesting adaptation of Sylvester's translation of the Divine weeks. She repeatedly states her admiration for Du Bartas and her indebtedness to him. Thirteen lines in the second day of the first natural phenomena, though she might be expected to find original inspiration in her New England environment, are vague and conventional. In occasional lines of Sylvester's translation occurs something of Elizabethan spaciousness; the only meritorious lines of Anne Bradstreet's poem occur in the Spring; The fearfull bird his littlthe passing of the old models. About 1700 new literary influences came from England; the old forms of verse were discarded for others more polished; Quarles and Sylvester gave way, first to Waller, then to Pope. But the change was not one of form alone. The decline of clerical influence, the increase of security and comfort in t
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index. (search)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 231 Strahan, William, 99 Stranger, the, 219 Strictures on a pamphlet, entitled a friendly address to all Reasonable Americans, 138 Sullivan, James, 148 Summary view of the rights of British America, etc., A, 142 Summer Wind, 272 Superstition, 220, 225 Survey of the Summe of Church discipline, 47 Swallow Barn, 311 Swift, 91, 98, 109, 112, 115, 116, 287, 320 Sword and the Distaff, the, 315 Sybil, 225 n. Sydney, Letters of, 148 Sylvester, Joshua, 154, 155, 158 T Table talk, 194 Tablet, 234 Tale of a Tub, a, 112, 118 Tale of Cloudland, a, 273 Tales (Byron), 280 Tales of a traveller, 246, 256 Tales of the border, 318 Tales of the Glauber Spa, 278 n. Talisman, the, 240 Taller, I 115, I 16 Tears and Smiles, 220, 227 Tennent, Gilbert, 77 Tenney, Tabitha, 292 Tennyson, 261, 263, 264, 269, 271, 335 Tenth Muse, lately sprung up in America, the, 154 Teresa Contarini, 224 Terrible Tractorat