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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.) 6 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Folger, Peter 1617-1690 (search)
Folger, Peter 1617-1690 Pioneer; born in England in 1617; emigrated to America with his father in 1635; settled in Martha's Vineyard in 1641; became a Baptist minister and was one of the commissioners to lay out Nantucket, receiving one-half of the land for his services as surveyor and interpreter. In his poem entitled A Looking-glass of the times; or, the former spirit of New England revived in this generation, he pleaded for liberty of conscience and toleration of all sects, even the Quakers and Anabaptists. He died in Nantucket, Mass., in 1690.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Franklin, Benjamin 1706-1790 (search)
Franklin, Benjamin 1706-1790 Statesman; born in Boston, Jan. 17, 1706. His father was from England; his mother was a daughter of Peter Folger, the Quaker poet of Nantucket. He learned the art of printing with his brother; but they disagreeing, Benjamin left Boston when seventeen years of age, sought employment in New York, but, not succeeding, went to Philadelphia, and there found it. He soon attracted the attention of Governor Keith as a very bright lad, who, making him a promise of the government printing, induced young Franklin, at the age of eighteen, to go to England and purchase printing material. He was deceived, and remained there eighteen months, working as a journeyman printer in London. He returned to Philadelphia late in 1726, and in 1729 established himself there as a printer. He started the Pennsylvania gazette, and married Deborah Read, a young woman whose husband had absconded. For many years he published an almanac under the assumed name of Richard Saunders
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)
cenery, written in the main for readers in the mother country, were versified merely for the sake of the jingle. Altogether this descriptive and historical verse amounts to less than a thousand lines. A Looking Glass for the Times (1677), by Peter Folger of Nantucket, derives interest from the fact that it was written by the maternal grandfather of Benjamin Franklin. Its four hundred lines in ballad quatrains are very bad verse, however, and, though it has been termed A manly plea for toleration in an age of intolerance, there is still question as to whether it was actually published in the author's lifetime and, consequently, whether Folger ran any risk. The most important piece of historical verse in this period was the work of the first native-born American poet, Benjamin Tompson (1644-1714), who, as his tombstone at Roxbury informs us, was a learned schoolmaster and physician and the renowned poet of New England, and is mortuus sed immortalis. His chief production, New Englan
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)
tism, 292 Fenimore, Susan, 293 Ferdinand, King of Spain, 257 Fessenden, Thomas Green, 174-175, 180 Feu de Joie, 174 Few political reflections, etc., A, 136 Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 332, 357 Fidler, Isaac, 207 Field of the grounded arms, the, 283 Fielding, 285, 287, 307 Fifty years (Bryant), 271 Firkins, O. W., 361 n. First play in America, the, 216 n. Fletcher, Giles, 155 Flint, Timothy, 211, 318 Flood of years, the, 265, 271 Flynn, Thomas, 231 Folger, Peter, 109, 151, 152 Follen, Charles T., 332, 333 Fontainville Abbey, 231 Forayers, the, 315 Ford, P. L., 148 n., 215 n., 216 n. Foreign Quarterly, the, 207 Forest Hymn, a, 265, 267 n. Forest life, 318 Forest Princess, the, 225 Forest Rose, the, 227, 227 n. Foresters, the, 163 Forrest, Edwin, 220, 221, 222 Forrest, Colonel, Thomas, 217 Foster, Mrs., Hannah Webster, 285 Fothergill, Dr., John, 195 Four elements, constitutions, ages of man, and seasons of the year