Statistics for occurrence #1 of “William Gifford” in chapter 1.10, page 178 of Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I:
...fting skies, Where Fancy sickens, and where Genius dies; Where few and feeble are the Muse's strains, And no fine frenzy riots in the veins. So he characterizes his environment in his epistle to William Gifford , which was prefixed to the American edition of the Baviad and Maeviad in 1799.
Gifford's stinging satire on the Della Cruscan school of poetry was welcomed in America by Cliffton, whose verse was ...
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