Puritan Poets and Poetics

Puritan Poets and Poetics
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Publisher : University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press
Total Pages : 368
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015010831348
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Download or read book Puritan Poets and Poetics written by Peter White and published by University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive and integrated 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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