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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)
es (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 friend Nathaniel Clarke. Together with its real feeling, it exhibits a certain felicity of diction that bespeaks Elizabethan models; and such phrases as where increate eternity's concealed, solemn music, and warbling divinest airs, seem to show that Milton had reached New England. As a genre the elegy died with the decline of the clergy, and passed as a fashion passes with changed conditions. The most interesting as well as the most pleasing figure in early New England verse is that of Anne Bradstreet, wh
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)
land, 20, 28 Church, Benjamin, 25, 162, 171 Churches quarrel Espoused, 52, 55 Churchill, 171, 173, 174, 182 Cicero, 103, 202, 276 Citizen of New Haven, Letters of A, 148 Citizen of the world, the, 238 Clap, Rector, 81 Clapp, W. W., Jr., 223 n., 226, 226 n., 229 n. Clara Howard, 292 Clari, 220 Clark, George Rogers, 189 Clark, Lewis Gaylord, 241 Clark, Captain, William, 203-205, 209, 210 Clark, Willis Gaylord, 241 Clarke, James Freeman, 333, 355 Clarke, Nathaniel, 154 Clarke, Samuel, 76 Clay, Henry, 300 Clemm, Mrs., 280 Cleveland, John, 153 Cliffton, William, 175, 178 Clifton, Josephine, 224 Climbing the natural Bridge, 312 Clinton, De Witt, 190 Clinton, General, George, 144 Clinton, Governor, George, 148, 149, 292 Cobbett, William, 210 Cockings, George, 217 Colden, Dr., Cadwallader, 26, 28 Coleridge, Hartley, 213 Coleridge, S. T., 181, 194, 212, 266, 272, 278, 281, 332, 332 n., 357 Collector, the, 244 Collee