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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.) 5 1 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)
y poems suggested by Akenside's Pleasures of the imagination and Brooke's Universal beauty. Richard Alsop's Charms of fancy in all its 2300 lines of heroic couplets contains not a fresh image or an original idea; but The powers of genius by John Blair Linn is at least the work of a man of taste and scholarship and compares favourably with all but the very best of its British counterparts. The extreme of dulness and futility is reached in the many poems on philosophy and religion for which PopII., Chap. II. signer of the Declaration of Independence, whose many occasional poems are merely as good as the average of their kind, but whose songs, some of which are suggestive of Gay and Prior, are distinctly musical and pleasing. The Rev. John Blair Linn (1777-1804), who, like Godfrey and Evans, died young and left his work unfinished, wrote odes to solitude and melancholy, pastorals and elegies, and other echoes of Shenstone, Gray, and even Mason. It is noticeable that the songs and l
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)
r, 203-205, 209, 210 Lewis [R.?], 151 Liberty, 262 n., 271 Liberty and necessity, on, 94 Liberty Tree, 167 Liberty's call, 167 Library of poetry and song, 276 Life and manners, in the West, 318 Life in Brooklyn, etc., 229 Life in New York, or the fireman on duty, 228 Life in the New world, 212 Life of Columbus (see Columbus), 258 Life of Mahomet, 257 Life of Washington, 252, 253, 258-259 Lifetime, a, 261 n. 271 Lincoln, 278 Linn, Elizabeth, 292 Linn, John Blair, 165, 177 Linnaeus, 186, 195 Linwoods, the, 310 Lionel Lincoln, 297, 300 Lists of New England Magazines, 120 n. Literary history of the American Revolution, 135 n. Literary magazine, the, 292 Literary world, the, 239 Little Beach Bird, the, 278 Littlepage manuscripts, 304-305 Little people of the snow, 273, 281 Lives (Plutarch), 93 Lives of distinguished American naval officers, 302 Livingston, Brockholst, 246 Livingston, William, 118, 119, 121, 162 L