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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.) 4 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)
y John Barnard's New version of the Psalms of David. It surpasses even Sternhold and Hopkins in uncouthness, and as a monument of bad taste has furnished an easy target for the ridicule of subsequent and less devout generations. It is unfair, however, to take The Bay Psalm Book as an index to the poetic taste of its period, or its subsequent popularity as indicating anything more than its usefulness. It was a makeshift, and they knew it was a poor one; an edition revised and refined by John Dunster and Richard Lyon followed in 1647. If these were refined, then, as Timothy Dwight remarks, a modem reader would almost instinctively ask, What were they before? We still possess in its original crudity the epic of New England puritanism, The day of doom; or, a poetical description of the great and last judgment. This was the masterpiece of the Rev. Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705), who was born in England, but emigrated to America, and graduated from Harvard at the age of twenty. He
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)
cis, 2, 194 Drake, Joseph Rodman, 262, 280-281 Drayton, Michael, 28 Dreams and Reveries of a quiet man, 241 Dryden, 112, I16, 152, 157, 158, 161, 162, 176, 182 Dry goods clerk of New York, the, 229 Du Bartas, 154, 155 Dubourg, Jacques Barbeu, 119 Duche, Rev., Jacob, 216 Dudley, Thomas, 154 Dulany, Daniel, 130, 131 Dunciad, the, 118, 171, 174 Dunlap, William, 219-220, 219 n., 223 n., 224, 226, 228, 228 n., 231, 232, 288 Dunlap Soc. Pub., 216 n., 225 n. Dunster, John, 156 Dunton, John, 54 Durang, C., 221, 221 n., 223 n., 226, 226 n., 231 n. Dutchman's fireside, the, 311 Dwight, Theodore, 164 Dwight, Timothy, 156, 163-165, 167, 172, 175, 187, 190, 191, 208, 212, 233, 292 Dyer, Mary, 8 Dying Indian, the, 183 E Early American realism, 289 Early opera in America, 216 n. Early plays at Harvard, 216 n. Early Virginia play, an, 216 n. Echo, the, 175, 261 Edgar Huntly, 291 Edict by the King of Prussia, an, 98, 102 Edinb