Books and chapbooks might circulate in both England and the colonies. Comparisons, Contrasts, Connections Comparisons with contemporary English poets can be instructive. Geographical or regional contrasts among the colonial selections illustrate the lack of a national voice until very late in the century. Bibliography Cowell, Pattie. Women Poets in Pre-Revolutionary America .
Entries grouped by individual poets, so access to relevant material is relatively easy.
Davis, Richard Beale. Intellectual Life in the Colonial South , Vol. On William Dawson. Lemay, J.A. Leo. In Men of Letters in Colonial Maryland .