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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.) 3 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)
ty of his style. But the nadir is reached by the Rev. Nicholas Noyes (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 pleasi
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)
270 When was the drama introduced in America? 216 n. Whipple, E. P., 244 Whistle, the, 101 Whitby, Daniel, 66 White, Kirk, 263, 270 n., 271 Whitefield, George, 9, 73-75, 77, 78, 81, 91, 103 White-Jacket, 321 Whitemarsh, Thomas, 116, I 17 Whitman, Elizabeth, 285 Whitman, Walt, 261, 262, 266, 268, 270, 271 Whittier, J. G., 86, 261, 262 Who wants a Guinea? 228 Wieland, 289, 292 Wigglesworth, Edward, 73,74, 75 Wigglesworth, Michael, 154, 156-157, 158, 160 Wigglesworth, Samuel, 154 Wilberforce, Bishop, 20 Wild Honeysuckle, the, 183 Wilderness and the War-path, the, 318 Wilkins, E. G., 230 Willard, Rev., Samuel, 158 William Gilmore Simms, 224 n. William Penn, 222, 225 Williams, Roger, 4, 8, 38, 39, 43-45, 50 Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 223, 224, 230, 241-243, 243 n., 262, 280 Wilson, Alexander, 163, 180, 189, 196 Wilson, James, 135 Winds, the, 271 Wing-and-wing, 302 Wingfield, Edward M., 16 Winslow, Edward, 19 Winter Piec