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American poetry : the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Library of America ; 178Publication details: New York : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Putnam, c2007.Description: xxiii, 952 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 1931082901
  • 9781931082907
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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 Brow
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This groundbreaking Library of America volume offers a fresh look at early American poetry, charting its evolution over a span of almost two centuries, from the first years of English settlement in the New World to the death of George Washington. Gathering the work of more than 100 poets-including many poems never previously anthologized and some published here for the first time-it is the most comprehensive collection of its kind ever assembled, a celebration of the rich, varied, and often surprising beginnings of American poetry.

The range of voices is unprecedented- broadside and newspaper satires, epitaphs, children's verse, popular songs, ballads, and Christian hymns evoke the vital currency of poetry in daily life; exhortatory elegies for public figures and historical epics declaimed on occasions of state stand alongside intricate meditative lyrics and private epistolary verses. The dramatic unfolding of American history is made immediate and vivid in the words of the participants- William Bradford reflects on the growth of New England's first colonies; Roger Wolcott recounts the incidents of the Pequot War; Thomas Paine hails the victories of the American Revolution; Ann Eliza Bleecker describes her flight from General Burgoyne's invading army; loyalist Jonathan Odell bitterly mocks the new Continental Congress.

The first comprehensive anthology of early American poetry in more than a generation, this volume incorporates recent scholarly discoveries that have altered our understanding of the early American literary landscape. Alongside generous selections from long admired New England poets such as Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, and Michael Wigglesworth are poets from the Middle Colonies and the South, newly emerged from the archives. Along with familiar favorites by Phillis Wheatley, celebrated pioneer of the African-American tradition in poetry, are little-known verses by Benjamin Banneker, known as "the Sable Astronomer," and African-American Minuteman Lemuel Haynes. The anthology includes hymns recently attributed to Mohegan preacher Samson Occom and the earliest known translation of a traditional Native American chant, Henry Timberlake's Cherokee "War-Song."

The unpublished poems of Henry Brooke, Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, Joseph Green, Hannah Griffitts, Margaret Lowther Page, and Annis Boudinot Stockton, among others, reflect the rediscovered vitality and importance of manuscript exchange as a form of publication in an era when it was sometimes considered indecorous, especially for women, to appear in print.

Unprecedented in its textual authority and unrivaled in its scope, the anthology includes newly researched biographical sketches of each poet and extensive notes.

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 881-941) and indexes.

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 Brow

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