American poetry
Subtitle: the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Contributors: Shields, David S.
Series: The library of America -- 178
Publisher: Library of America; Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Putnam
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 952
ISBN-13: 9781931082907
Subjects: American poetry -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; American poetry -- Revolutionary period, 1775-1783
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 881-941) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: George Sandys; title: Thomas Morton; title: John Smith; title: John Wilson; title: William Bradford; title: Christopher Gardiner; title: Edward Johnson; title: from the Bay Psalm book; title: Roger Williams; title: John Fiske; title: Anne Bradstreet; title: John Saffin; title: Edmund Hickeringill; title: Michael Wigglesworth; title: Urian Oakes; title: George Alsop; title: Benjamin Tompson; title: James Revel; title: Edward Taylor; title: Francis Daniel Pastorius; title: John Norton Jr.; title: Samuel Sewall; title: Benjamin Harris; title: John Danforth; title: Cotton Mather; title: Sarah Kemble Knight; title: Robert Hunter; title: Ebenezer Cook; title: Lewis Morris II; title: Benjamin Colman; title: Tom Law; title: Christopher Witt; title: Henry Brooke; title: Roger Wolcott; title: Charles Hansford; title: George Berkeley; title: George Seagood; title: Joseph Breintnall; title: James Kirkpatrick; title: Susanna Wright; title: Richard Lewis; title: Thomas Dale; title: "Ralpho Cobble"; title: James Sterling; title: William Dawson; title: John Adams; title: Archibald Home; title: Joseph Green; title: Benjamin Franklin; title: Mather Byles; title: Jane Colman Turrell; title: Mary Hirst Pepperell; title: John Seccomb; title: Anon.; title: "Poor Julian"; title: Jupiter Hammon; title: John Osborn; title: Thomas Cradock; title: Charles Woodmason; title: James Grainger; title: Samuel Davies; title: A.L.M.; title: Thomas Clemson; title: "Carolina, a young lady"; title: Joseph Dumbleton; title: William Livingston; title: Samson Occom; title: Anon.; title: Anon.; title: William Smith; title: Hannah Griffitts; title: Mary Nelson; title: Mercy Otis Warren; title: Lucy Terry; title: Ned Botwood; title: Henry Timberlake; title: Benjamin Banneker; title: Thomas Godfrey Jr.; title: Annis Boudinot Stockton; title: John Singleton; title: Francis Hopkinson; title: Jonathan Odell; title: Thomas Paine; title: Yankee Doodle; title: Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson; title: Robert Bolling; title: Nathaniel Evans; title: Joseph Stansbury; title: William Billings; title: John André; title: John Trumbull; title: Ann Eliza Bleecker; title: Timothy Dwight; title: Anon.; title: Anne Hecht; title: Philip Freneau; title: David Humphreys; title: St. George Tucker; title: George Ogilvie; title: Phillis Wheatley; title: Lemuel Haynes; title: Joel Barlow; title: Royall Tyler; title: Margaret Lowther Page; title: Sarah Wentworth Morton; title: Joseph Hopkinson; title: Thomas Green Fessenden; title: Charles Brockden Brown; title: Robert Treat Paine Jr.; title: William Munford.