Puritan Poets and Poetics: Seventeenth-Century American Poetry in Theory and Practice [Hardcover]

Peter White (Author, Editor)

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Publication Date: January 1, 1986

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 achievements of nine of the most successful poets; thin the varied forms the poets used sacred and profane, serious and humorous, formal and informal.

#outer_postBodyPS { display: none; } #psGradient { display: none; } #psPlaceHolder { display: none; } #psExpand { display: none; } 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 achievements of nine of the most successful poets; thin the varied forms the poets used sacred and profane, serious and humorous, formal and informal.

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Contributors: Robert D. Arner Ursula Brumm, Michael Clark, Pattie Cowell, Robert Daly, Kathryn Zabelle Derounian, Lynn M. Haims, Harold Jantz, Karl Keller, Jayne K. Kribbs, Mason I. Lowance, Jr., Cheryl Z. Oreovicz, Alan H. Pope, Jesper Rosenmeier, Rosamond R. Rosenmeier Lawrence Rosenwald, Karen E. Rowe William J. Scheick, Robert Secor, Cheryl Walker, Jeffrey Walker, Peter White

Product Details

Hardcover: 343 pages
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt); First Edition edition (January 1, 1986)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0271004134
ISBN-13: 978-0271004136
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,072,728 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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