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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 6 0 Browse Search
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)
le, translations from Horace, and half a dozen elegies, including one on Cotton Mather and one on Jane Turell. All these are written in the heroic couplet but in a diction more natural than Pope's. That Adams knew Milton's poems is apparent in his Address to the Supreme being. Indeed these poems, though pervaded by the Puritan spirit, yet reveal a more purely aesthetic purpose and a more careful style than can generally be found before the later years of the century. The almanacs of Nathaniel Ames, father and son, of Dedham, Massachusetts, had their part in disseminating throughout New England a knowledge of the English poets and perhaps also in fostering a taste for humorous poetry. The brief passages from Dryden, Pope, and James Thomson (yes, and Blackmore!), prefixed to the astronomical data, and the unpretentious humorous verses scattered through the other matter, were far more widely read than the laboured and ambitious poems of the literary group in Boston. An Essay upon t
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)
can magazine, the, 122 American magazine and historical chronicle, the, 121 American Mercury, 115, 116 n. American Monthly magazine, the, 241 American notes, 207 American philosophical Society, founding of, 96 American Querist, etc., The, 138 American Register, 292 American Sappho, the, 178, 179 American scholar, the, 262, 328, 334 American times, 174 American village, the, 181 Americans in Paris, 230 Americans roused in a cure for the Spleen, the, 218 Ames, Nathaniel, 161 Ames, Jr., 161 Among the trees, 265, 267 Analectic magazine, the, 248 Anarchiad, the, 172, 174 Anderson, J. S. M., 20 Andre, Major, 225 Andre, 219, 225 n. Androborus, 215, 215 n. Andros, Sir, Edmund, 52 Annals of Quodlibet, the, 312 Anti-Jacobin, the, 171, 176 Apology for the true Christian divinity (Barclay), I 16 Appeal from the judgments of great Britain respecting the United States, an, 208 Aquinas, Thomas, 266 Arbuthnot, John, I16 Argus, 2