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The citizen poets of Boston : a collection of forgotten poems, 1789-1820 /
Uncovers the vibrant, lost world of Boston's post-revolutionary poetry.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hanover :
University Press of New England,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Contents; Preface; A Note on Spelling, Punctuation, Capitalization, and Notes; Introduction; Coming to Boston; The Stage Coach. Inscribed to Mira; Epigram [As two Divines]; An Intended Inscription, Written for the Monument on Beacon-Hill, in Boston, and Addressed to the Passenger; On the Licentiousness of the Manners of the Present Day; Lines on the Elm Tree; Anacreon Imitated; Fragment. [As I walk'd on the banks of Charles' briny flood]; A Letter to Tom, in the Country; [Dear Jack, I am no more the clown]; Jonathan's Journey to Boston; [In Boston once did A with B contend].
- Men and WomenA Recipe for the Ladies, Or, Advice How to Get a Husband; Advice to the Young Ladies of Boston, ; On the Choice of a Husband; The Modest Wish of Susan, the Breeches Maker; Lines Written by a Lady, Who Was Questioned Respecting Her; Lines Spoken Extempore to a Lady, on Being Asked What This World; Simile [Passion is like the base narcotic flower]; Epitaph [Here lies the quintessence of noise and strife]; [Oh, envy'd happiness! said Isabel]; The Old-Maid [from "The Ruling Passion"]; Crosses; [Thy manly face I strove to hit]; Enquiry; The Wish.
- Impromptu on the Marriage of Capt. Foot, with Miss PattenThe Man to My Mind; A Parody; Epigram [That ladies are the softer sex]; A Hint to a Friend; To My Friend; Song [I courted a girl that I long wished to marry]; Look before You Leap. A True Story; Single Blessedness; Matrimony; Woman; Answer to the Lines Entitled "Woman," Signed, Ned Megrims; A Tale; [What's become of Ned Megrims would any one know]; Woman; Ladies' Dress; Politics; The War Horse; The Man of Feeling; Stanzas to Maria Antonietta; To the President; The Dying Indian; Epigram [In the reign of Democracy, dead to all shame].
- Epigram [When a Partizan dies of true Jacobin leaven][Arduous the task in which we would engage]; Democrats in Office; Hymn, Sung at Cambridge, at the Celebration of Peace; Lines Composed on Hearing the News of Peace; Buonaparte; Extracts from Fawcett's Contrast; Canning's Speech; Epitaph on a Tomb-Stone; Spare Injur'd Africa! The Negro Spare!; New Year's Address of the Sweepers; Tribute to Foreign Missions; Slave-Holder and Yankee; The Family; On the Domestic Education of Children; Verses on a Sleeping Daughter; Lines Written by an Old Planter, in the Country, to His Daughter.
- [Julia, to Anna Maria, Sends Greeting]Thanksgiving; The Hopeful Youth; The Retrospect; or-All for the Best; Eliza ... A Poem; Lord Dyring ... A Ballad; Jephthah's Vow; The Consolation; The Effects of Intemperance; To the American Goldfinch; The Orphan; Stanzas Addressed by a Lady in Vermont to Her Brother in the Army; A Grandmother to Her Infant Grandchild; A Mother's Love; Jobs, Shops, and the Professions; Mechanics Song; On the Multitude of Lawyers; Epigram [Since the fulness of blessing the gospel contains]; The When, the Why, the Where, the What, the How. Epitaph on an Hermit.