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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.) 2 2 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)
f his time. His elegy on Oakes reaches a length of over four hundred lines. To adorn his subject he ransacks the ages, spoils the climes ; his pentameters and his quatrains are mere doggerel, his rhymes are atrocious, and his lines rife with conceits and puns and classical and biblical allusions. John Cleveland at his best could do no worse. The real feeling that probably inspired Mather's writing is obscured by the laboured insincerity of his style. But the nadir is reached by the Rev. Nicholas Noyes (1647-1717), who in his elegies on the Rev. John Higginson and the Rev. Joseph Green shows promising possibilities of bathos, but who in his poem on the Rev. James Brayley's attack of the stone revels in such a plethora of conceits and puns as to put to the blush his most gifted English contemporaries. The one elegiac poem of early New England that may be worth preserving is the Funeral song (1709), written by the Rev. Samuel Wigglesworth, son of Michael, on the death of his frien
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)
342 Newton, 81 Nick of the woods, 222, 319 Night piece, 176 Niles' weekly Register, 208 Nimphidia, 281 Noah, I. M., 220, 226, 231 Norris, John, 70 n. North, Lord, 141, 142 North American review, the, 208, 240 n., 262, 278, 341 Northrup, C. S., 324 n. Norton, Charles Eliot, 354, 356 Notes on the state of Virginia, etc., 199, 201, 202 Notions of the Americans picked up by a travelling bachelor, 208, 301 Novanglus, 137 Novelists, the, 324 n. Noyes, Rev., Nicholas, 153 Nuttall, Thomas, 189 O Oakes, Rev., Urian, 153 Oak-Openings, the, 304 Objections to the proposed Federal Constitution, 148 Objections to the taxation of our American colonies, etc., The, 129 Observations concerning the Increase of mankind, etc., 97 Observations leading to a fair examination of the system of government proposed by the late Convention, 148 Observations on the importance of the American Revolution, etc., 147 Observations on the New Cons