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Like other true poets, Anne Bradstreet enlivened the conventions she received, transforming them into a unique and vigorous instrument. But she did not use that instrument for small or temporary ends. Her work is very much a whole. This study aims to look at the whole body of her poetry as she encountered prevailing literary forms and fashioned them into a personal voice for an ever deepening argument between the world she knew and the promise of...
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"The first comprehensive and integrate critical survey of colonial American poetry, this book focuses on the New England Puritans, who produced the most notable poets, relating them contextually to writers of the Middle Atlantic and Southern colonies and to their European forebears.Following a general introduction by the editor, the book's three parts present: first, the social and aesthetic context in which the poets worked; second, the individual...
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Study of the New England colonial poet, Edward Taylor, and the relationship between his verbal wit and his religious commitment to Puritan belief. Gratt evaluates the anti-utilitarian dimensions and Puritan themes in Taylor's poems to draw larger conclusions about the New England Soul.
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This [book offers] the gripping story of a woman and poet of great feeling struggling to find a language to describe the country in which she finds herself. It also offers a rich and complex portrait of early America, the Puritans, and the trials and values whose legacy continues to shape our country to the present day.-Dust jacket.
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Tracing New England's literary emergence through the early national and antebellum periods, author Lawrence Buell combines intensive study of texts by such major figures as Emerson, Hawthorne, and Dickinson with analyses of works by a great range of other New England writers. The result is a new and deeper look at the rise of American literary professionalism, the meaning and significance of Neoclassicism and Romanticism in America, and the conventions...
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