Research Catalog

Title

American poetry : the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Publication

New York : Library of America, ©2007.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Details

Additional Authors

Shields, David S., 1951-

Description

xxiii, 952 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

The library of America ; 178

Uniform Title

Library of America ; 178.

Subjects

• Poetry
• 1600-1799
• American poetry > 18th century
• American poetry > 17th century

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Note

• "David S. Shields selected the contents and wrote the notes for this volume"--Page [vii].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 881-941) and indexes.

Contents

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 Turell -- 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.

Call Number

PS221

ISBN

• 9781931082907
• 1931082901

LCCN

2007929763

OCLC

144228453

Title

American poetry : the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Imprint

New York : Library of America, ©2007.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The library of America ; 178

Library of America ; 178.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 881-941) and indexes.

Connect to:

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Chronological Term

1600-1799

Added Author

Shields, David S., 1951-

Other Form:

Online version: American poetry. New York : Library of America, ©2007 (OCoLC)607754228

Online version: American poetry. New York : Library of America, ©2007 (OCoLC)608393000

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR PS221 .A4 v. 178