American Poetry of the Seventeenth Century - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0271004185 ISBN 13: 9780271004181

Publisher: Penn State University Press, 1986

Synopsis

Reissued in response to demand, this definitive anthology of colonial American poetry is made available in a classroom edition, with annotatory emendations reflecting recent scholarship. The book presents 250 representative poems—fifty-nine printed here for the first time—accompanied by Professor Meserole's illuminating introduction, notes, glosses, comments, and catalogue of sources.

The poets represented range from well-known writers such as Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, and Michael Wigglesworth to personages not known primarily for their poetry—including Cotton Mather, Governor William Bradford, Roger Williams, and Captain John Smith—to the less famous such as schoolteacher Sarah Kemble Knight, lawyer Richard Chamberlain, and former indentured servant George Alsop.

The poetry here offers a wide range of expression, including love lyrics, religious meditation, political satire, elegies, and personal narratives.

About this title

About the Author:

Harrison T. Meserole is Distinguished Professor of English at Texas A&M, coeditor of Seventeenth-Century News, and former Director of Graduate Research Penn State. His doctorate is from the University of Maryland.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0271004185
• ISBN 13: 9780271004181
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 576
• Editor: Meserole Harrison T.