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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)
he outside strong, the inside warm and neat, A natural Artificer compleat. The verse of all her longer poems is precisely that of Sylvestera couplet, not quite loose, but less compact than the heroic couplet, with the characteristic Elizabethan freedom in rhyme and with the shifting caesura. It is not, however, in these long, dreary, and purely didactic poems that Anne Bradstreet shows her real capacity. When she walks in happier paths, with a song in her heart, remembering Spenser and Giles Fletcher, she shows that perhaps in more fortunate times she might have written poetry. Her Contemplations is a meditative and descriptive poem in thirty-three seven-line stanzas, in which occur passages at least pleasing in suggestion and rhythm, however reminiscent of greater times and talents: When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth (though old) stil clad in green, The stones and trees, insensible to time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; If winter come, an
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)
gazette, the, 102 Federalist, the, 148-149, 236, 254 Female patriotism, etc., 224 Female Quixotism, 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,