The Citizen Poets of Boston [[electronic resource] ] : A Collection of Forgotten Poems, 1789–1820 / / Paul Lewis, editor

• Pubblicazione: Hanover, [Massachusetts] ; ; London, [England] : , : University Press of New England, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (254 p.)
• Disciplina: 811.008/0974461
• Soggetto topico: American poetry - 19th century; American poetry - 18th century; American poetry - Massachusetts - Boston
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): LewisPaul <1949->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ; Ations
• Sommario/riassunto: Uncovers the vibrant, lost world of Boston's post-revolutionary poetry
• Titolo autorizzato: The Citizen Poets of Boston
• ISBN: 1-61168-930-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910798186403321
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