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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
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 2 0 Browse Search
Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739. 2 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)
amiliar with great religious poetry; but its one biblical paraphrase and its one effort at writing religious song was The Bay Psalm Book. To meet the need for divine songs to sing in the churches, Richard Mather, Thomas Welde, and John Eliot supervised the preparation of a new metrical version of the Psalms. The Bay Psalm Book, as it came to be called, was the first book published on American soil, and passed through twenty-seven editions between 1640 and 1752, when it was superseded by John Barnard's New version of the Psalms of David.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 a
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)
aphy (Franklin), 91, 94 n., 161 Autumnal reflections, 238 B Backwoodsman, the, 238-239, 279 Bacon, Lord, 82, I 10, I 16 Bacon, Nathaniel, 24, 150 Bailey, John J., 224 Baker, Benjamin A., 229 Ballad of reading gaol, the, 264 Baltimore Company, 218 Baltimore Company, Lord, 18 Bancroft, George, 332 Banks, Joseph, 91, 193 Barbe-Marbois, Marquis de, 201 Barclay, Robert, I16 Barker, James N., 220, 224, 225, 227 Barlow, Joel, 164, 169-171, 174, 261 Barnard, John, 156 Barnes, 221 Barrett, Lawrence, 223 Barrow, Robert, 8 Bartram, John, 194-195, 201 Bartram, William, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191,192, 194, 195-198,212,213 Batchelor's Hall, 161 Byteman, Mrs. Sidney F., 230 Battle of Brooklyn, the, 218 Battle of Lovell's Pond, the, 166 Battle of the kegs, 167 Baviad, 178 Bay Psalm Book, the, 156 Beattie, William, 163 Beauchamp, Colonel, 224 Beauchampe, 225 n., 317 Beauties of Santa Cruz, the, 181 Beaux-Stratage