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OF
AMERICAN LITERATURE
II.
1677-1765
BY
MOSES COIT TYLER
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF
CALIFORNIA.
NEW YORK
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
182 FIFTH AVENUE
1878
COPYRIGHT
By G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XI.
NEW ENGLAND: THE VERSE-WRITERS.
I. The two literary periods in our colonial age-Their points of dis-
tinction-The times and the men-Our intended line of march
through the second period....
II.-John Norton-His poem on the death of Anne Bradstreet-John
Rogers-His poetic praise of Anne Bradstreet......
III.-Urian Oakes-His high literary gifts-His elegy on the death of
Thomas Shepard...................
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IV.-Peter Folger, the ballad-writer-Benjamin Tompson, the satirist..
V.—Michael Wigglesworth, the sturdy rhymer of New England Calvin-
ism-His great popularity-Puts into verse the glooms and the
comforts of the prevailing faith-The realistic poet of hell-fire—
"God's Controversy with New England "-" Meat out of the
Eater"-"The Day of Doom."-Synopsis of the latter poem-Its
wide diffusion and influence-His son, Samuel Wigglesworth, a
true poet-"A Funeral Song" by the latter.....
VI.-Nicholas Noyes, the last and greatest of our Fantastics-His fine
personal career-The monstrosities of his muse-Prefatory poem
on the "Magnalia ”—Lines on John Higginson-Elegy on Joseph
Green-Verses on the painful malady of a Reverend friend..............
VII. Strong influence in America of the contemporary English poets,
especially Pope, Blackmore, Watts, Thomson, Young-Echoes of
them in Francis Knapp, Benjamin Colman, Jane Turell, Mather
Byles-The career and poetry of Roger Wolcott-His Connecti-
cut epic-His "Poetical Meditations ".
VIII.-Humorous poetry-John Seccomb and his burlesque verses-
The facetiousness of Joseph Green
"Entertainment for a Winter Evening".
IX.-War-verses
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Popular ballads -
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His impromptus — His
- Tilden's
Lovewell's Fight".
"Miscellaneous Poems" John Maylem, Philo-Bellum - His
Conquest of Louisburg "-Iis "Gallic Perfidy"......
X.-A group of serious singers-John Adams-His accomplishments and
poetry-" Poems by Several Hands "-Peter Oliver, the literary
politician-His poem in honor of Josiah Willard.......
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