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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)
rals and elegies, and other echoes of Shenstone, Gray, and even Mason. It is noticeable that the songs and light social lyrics of the close of the century come from Philadelphia, the social capital. The gifted and original William Cliffton (1772-1799) was both a satirist and a lyrist. His half-dozen lyrics, quite the two best of which are To fancy and To a Robin, The latter is written in the eight-line anapestic stanza greatly favoured by Shenstone and later used by Cowper in his Alexander Selkirk, which occurs with notable frequency in the lyrics of this period. are not without grace and delicacy, which he owes largely to his models, Gay, Prior, and Collins. Like Freneau and other poets of the time, Cliffton found his surroundings unsympathetic: In these cold shades, beneath these shifting skies, Where Fancy sickens, and where Genius dies; Where few and feeble are the Muse's strains, And no fine frenzy riots in the veins. So he characterizes his environment in his epistle to W
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)
experienced planters of New-England, 17 Advice to such as would remove to America, etc., 101 Afloat and ashore, 302, 305 Ages, the, 262 Agrippa, Letters of, 148 Aiken, G. L., 227 Aimard, Gustave, 325 Akenside, 165, 263, 263 n. A l'abri, 241 Alarm to the legislature of the province of New York, an, 136 Alciphron, 81 Alcott, Amos Bronson, 333, 336-339, 340, 341, 342, 343, 345, 347 Alcott, Louisa May, 337, 338 Alcott, (Mrs. A. Bronson), 338 Alcuin, 288 Alexander Selkirk, 178 n. Algerine Captive, the, 236, 287 Alhambra, the, 239, 257 Allen, Ethan, 310 Allen, Paul, 180, 205 Alnwick Castle, 282 Alsop, George, 151 Alsop, Richard, 164, 165, 175 America, commerce, and freedom, 179 American Company, 217, 218, 219 American democrat, the, 302 American Ethnological Society, 196 American Farmer, 187 American Flag, 281 American geography, 187 American literature (Trent), 280 n. American magazine, the, 122 American magazine and