Major Writers of Early American LiteratureUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1972 - 301 Seiten An outstanding collection of original critical essays by distinguished specialists, this book is both a chronological survey of nearly 200 years of American literature and an exciting reappraisal of the major figures of that period. Includes works from Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, William Bryd, Anne Bradstreet, William Bradford, and others. |
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... Figure in't to make it fine . Here lies a Metonymy ; there doth sculke An Irony ; here underneath this bulke A Metaphor ; Synecdoche doth reare And open publickly Shopwindows here . * And so on . Before the poem is finished he has ...
... Figure in't to make it fine . Here lies a Metonymy ; there doth sculke An Irony ; here underneath this bulke A Metaphor ; Synecdoche doth reare And open publickly Shopwindows here . * And so on . Before the poem is finished he has ...
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... figure to the next , the appropriateness of the figure being determined by traditional usage ( typological or otherwise ) and not by whether or not it logically coalesced with the preceding figure . Stanza five : The bucket of ...
... figure to the next , the appropriateness of the figure being determined by traditional usage ( typological or otherwise ) and not by whether or not it logically coalesced with the preceding figure . Stanza five : The bucket of ...
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... figure , the embodiment of things past and to come , para- doxically insulated from the present and symbolic of his culture . Broadly considered , the figure evokes a number of earlier heroic models , such as the postexilic Hebrew seer ...
... figure , the embodiment of things past and to come , para- doxically insulated from the present and symbolic of his culture . Broadly considered , the figure evokes a number of earlier heroic models , such as the postexilic Hebrew seer ...
Inhalt
Introduction | 3 |
Anne Bradstreet | 33 |
Edward Taylor | 59 |
Urheberrecht | |
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