Seventeenth-century American Poetry


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American Poetry: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (LOA #178)


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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.




Seventeenth-century American Poetry


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Table of contents: Xii. Byrd, William (1674-1744) 57 Xii. Byrd, William (1674-1744) 61 Xii. Byrd, William (1674-1744) 61 Xii. Byrd, William (1674-1744) 62 Xii. Byrd, William (1674-1744) 66 Xii. Byrd, William (1674-1744) 67 --Xviii. Cotton, Seaborn (1633-1686) 70 --Xix. Danforth, John (1660-1730) 70 --Xix. Danforth, John (1660-1730) 71 --Xxi. Danforth, Samuel II (1666-1727) 72 --Xxii. Elegies 72 XXI Elegies 75 --Xxiv. Fiske, John (1608-1677) 76 --Xxv. Folger, Peter (1617-1690) 76 --Xxvi. Gookin, Daniel (1650-1718) 77 --Xxvii. Harris, Benjamin (c. 1640-1720) 77 --Xxvii. Harris, Benjamin (c. 1640-1720) 78 --Xxvii. Harris, Benjamin (c. 1640-1720) 79 --Xxvii. Harris, Benjamin (c. 1640-1720) 79 --Xxvii. Harris, Benjamin (c. 1640-1720) 80 --Xxvii. Harris, Benjamin (c. 1640-1720) 81 --Xxvii. Harris, Benjamin (c. 1640-1720) 82 --Xxvii. Harris, Benjamin (c. 1640-1720) 83 --Xxvii. Harris, Benjamin (c. 1640-1720) 83 --Xxxvi. Morris, Lewis (1671-1746) 84 --Xxxvii. Morton, Nathaniel (1613-1686) 84 --Xxxviii. Morton, Thomas (1590?-1647) 84 --Xxxix. Moxon, George (1602-1687) 86 --Xl. Nicholson, Francis (c. 1657-1728) 86 --Xli. Norton, John (1651-1716) 86 --Xlii. Noyes, Nicholas (1647-1717) 87 --Xliii. Oakes, Urian (1631-1681) 87 --Xliii. Oakes, Urian (1631-1681) 89 --Xliii. Oakes, Urian (1631-1681) 90 --Xlvi. Rogers, John (1630-1684) 92 --Xlvii. Saffin, John (1626-1710) 92 --Xlvii. Saffin, John (1626-1710) 94 --Xlvii. Saffin, John (1626-1710) 100 --Xlvii. Saffin, John (1626-1710) 102 --Xlvii. Saffin, John (1626-1710) 103 --Xlvii. Saffin, John (1626-1710) 103 --Liii. Stirk, George (1628?-1665) 104 --Liv. Strachey, William (1572-1621) 104 --Lv. Taylor, Edward (c. 1642-1729) 105 --Lvi. Tillam, Thomas (16??-After 1668) 158 --Lvii. Tompson, Benjamin (1642-1714) 159 --Lviii. Walter, Nehemiah (1663-1750) 161 --Lix. Ward, Nathaniel (1578-1652) 161 --Lix. Ward, Nathaniel (1578-1652) 163 --Lix. Ward, Nathaniel (1578-1652) 169 --Lix. Ward, Nathaniel (1578-1652) 170 --Lix. Ward, Nathaniel (1578-1652) 171 --Lxiv. Wood, William (1606-After 1637) 173 --Abbreviations for Index 175 --Index of Authors, Poets, and Selected Topics.




Puritan Poets and Poetics


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The first comprehensive and integrated critical survey of colonial American poetry, this book focuses on the New England Puritans, who produced the most notable poets, relating them contextually to writers of the Middle Atlantic and Southern colonies and to their European forebears. Following a general introduction by the editor, the book's three parts present: first, the social and aesthetic context in which the poets worked; second, the individual achievements of nine of the most successful poets; thin the varied forms the poets used sacred and profane, serious and humorous, formal and informal.













The Metaphysical Passion


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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.