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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.) 6 2 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)
any member of the Hartford group. The two most vigorous and prolific tory satirists were Joseph Stansbury (1750-1809), a merchant of Philadelphia, and the Rev. Jonathan Odell (1737-1818), of New Jersey. Their satires and satirical songs, odes, and ballads are generally alike both in matter and style, but Stansbury is the bette off an ode to the king, a comic ballad recounting an American reverse, or a loyal song, all with equal facility and with little of the invective characteristic of Odell. His Town meeting, a satirical ballad of over one hundred and fifty lines, is typical, but his lyric, To Cordelia, addressed to his wife from Nova Scotia at the close of the Revolution, shows that he could also write a true poem. Odell, whose satires were not only in the main longer and less original, but also more virulent, was the Freneau of the tory side. Though possessed of little humour and less wit, he is at least vigorous and incisive and can give Freneau as good as he sends: Back
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)
he taxation of our American colonies, etc., The, 129 Observations concerning the Increase of mankind, etc., 97 Observations leading to a fair examination of the system of government proposed by the late Convention, 148 Observations on the importance of the American Revolution, etc., 147 Observations on the New Constitution, 148 Octavia Brigaldi, 224 Odds and ends, 239 Ode on the late General Wolfe, 123 Ode on the prospect of peace, 177 Ode to friendship, 176 Odell, Rev., Jonathan, 173, 174 Of ancient and modern Confederacies, 146 Of the Meanes of disposing the enemies to peace, 97 Old bachelor, the, 237 Oldmixon, John, 26 Old Oaken Bucket, the, 279 Old South Church, 20 Oliver, Andrew, 121 Oliver Oldschool, 234 Ollapodiana, 241 Omoo, 321 On conciliation with America, 212 On the Conqueror of America shut up in Boston, 139 On the death of Captain Nicholas Biddie, 183 On the five points of Calvinism, 66 On the human understandi