The Compound Epithet and its Use in American Poetry from Bradstreet through Whitman

Peltola, Niilo

Published by Suolamalaisen Tiedeakatemia, Helsinki, 1956

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24x16cm, 299 pp, Cover bears only series title: Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian Toimituksia, Sarja B, Nid. 105. Contents: The Origins of the Compound Epithet: The Old English & Middle English Periods; The Rebirth & Evolution of the Compound Epithet in Modern English Poetry; The Colonial Period: Anne Bradstreet; Michael Wigglesworth;Edward Taylor; The Revolutionary Period: John Trumbull; Joel Barlow; Timothy Dwight; Philip Freneau; Two Early Masters of American Verse: Edgar Allan Poe; William Cullen Bryant; The Genteel Tradition of New England: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; John Greenleaf Whittier; James Russell Lowell; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Walt Whitman; Principles of Classification; Historical Survey of the Types of Compound Adjectives; The Compound Epithets Classified by Author & by Type; Tables. Seller Inventory # 005987

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Title: The Compound Epithet and its Use in American...

Publisher: Suolamalaisen Tiedeakatemia, Helsinki

Publication Date: 1956

Binding: orig. wrappers

Condition: Unopened, minor rubbing, VG.