American poetry : the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Shields, David S.
New York : Library of America,
c2007.
Presents a collection of early American poetry in a tribute to the diversity and range of poetic traditions from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and includes regional music ballads and Native American translations.
"David S. Shields selected the contents and wrote the notes for this volume"--p. [vii].
Includes bibliographical references (p. 881-941) and indexes.
George Sandys -- Thomas Morton -- John Smith -- John Wilson -- William Bradford -- Christopher Gardiner -- Edward Johnson -- from the Bay Psalm book -- Roger Williams -- John Fiske -- Anne Bradstreet -- John Saffin -- Edmund Hickeringill -- Michael Wigglesworth -- Urian Oakes -- George Alsop -- Benjamin Tompson -- James Revel -- Edward Taylor -- Francis Daniel Pastorius -- John Norton Jr. -- Samuel Sewall -- Benjamin Harris -- John Danforth -- Cotton Mather -- Sarah Kemble Knight -- Robert Hunter -- Ebenezer Cook -- Lewis Morris II -- Benjamin Colman -- Tom Law -- Christopher Witt -- Henry Brooke -- Roger Wolcott -- Charles Hansford -- George Berkeley -- George Seagood -- Joseph Breintnall -- James Kirkpatrick -- Susanna Wright -- Richard Lewis -- Thomas Dale -- "Ralpho Cobble" -- James Sterling -- William Dawson -- John Adams -- Archibald Home -- Joseph Green -- Benjamin Franklin -- Mather Byles -- Jane Colman Turrell -- Mary Hirst Pepperell -- John Seccomb -- Anon. -- "Poor Julian" -- Jupiter Hammon -- John Osborn -- Thomas Cradock -- Charles Woodmason -- James Grainger -- Samuel Davies -- A.L.M. -- Thomas Clemson -- "Carolina, a young lady" -- Joseph Dumbleton -- William Livingston -- Samson Occom -- Anon. -- Anon. -- William Smith -- Hannah Griffitts -- Mary Nelson -- Mercy Otis Warren -- Lucy Terry -- Ned Botwood -- Henry Timberlake -- Benjamin Banneker -- Thomas Godfrey Jr. -- Annis Boudinot Stockton -- John Singleton -- Francis Hopkinson -- Jonathan Odell -- Thomas Paine -- Yankee Doodle -- Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson -- Robert Bolling -- Nathaniel Evans -- Joseph Stansbury -- William Billings -- John André -- John Trumbull -- Ann Eliza Bleecker -- Timothy Dwight -- Anon. -- Anne Hecht -- Philip Freneau -- David Humphreys -- St. George Tucker -- George Ogilvie -- Phillis Wheatley -- Lemuel Haynes -- Joel Barlow -- Royall Tyler -- Margaret Lowther Page -- Sarah Wentworth Morton -- Joseph Hopkinson -- Thomas Green Fessenden -- Charles Brockden Brown -- Robert Treat Paine Jr. -- William Munford.
Presents a collection of early American poetry in a tribute to the diversity and range of poetic traditions from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and includes regional music ballads and Native American translations.
American poetry
American poetry
American poetry.