Early American Poetry
Subtitle: Bradstreet, Taylor, Dwight, Freneau, and Bryant
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr
Published: May 1978
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9780299074401
Subjects: American; Anthologies (multiple authors); Poetry; 1783-1850; American poetry; Collections; Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; History and criticism; Literary Criticism
Description: This is a major-figure anthology of American poetry in the colonial and early national periods. It examines the changing patterns of our literature through the work of five poets, each representative of a period in America's cultural development but distinctive as well, speaking in a personal voice on a variety of themes. - Preface.