Thomas Morton of "Merrymount" : The life and renaissance of an early American poet / / by Jack Dempsey

• Autore: Dempsey Jack <1895-1983.>
• Pubblicazione: Scituate, Mass., : Digital Scanning, 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (434 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Poets, American
• Note generali: Originally published: Thomas Morton of "Merrymount": The life and renaissance of an early American poet. Stoneham, Mass.: Jack Dempsey, 2000.
• Nota di contenuto: THOMAS MORTON of "Merrymount -- About the writer -- A Sampler of Remarks on Morton and Canaan -- Contexts & -- Chronology -- CHAPTERS -- 1: Family, Sensibility, the Times -- 2: Education -- 3: At the Inns of Court -- 4: Exit to America -- *ANTIMASQUE:AMERICA'S FIRST POETRY IN ENGLISH -- 5: New World, New Life -- 6: Failure & -- Fortune -- 7: Family Values -- 8: Revel, Arrest & -- Return . -- MASQUE: The RIDDLE of MAY DAY -- 9: Banned in Boston:Second Exile,Canaan ,and Revenge -- 10: Land of the New Creed -- BIBLIOGRAPHIES -- 1: Works Cited -- 2: 1492-1637:Influences and Contemporaries -- INDEX -- MAPS & -- ILLUSTRATIONS,DOCUMENTS & -- ARTIFACTS -- 1) Atlantic Sea-Routes between Europe, West Indies and Native America -- 2) England and the Borders of its Counties -- 3) Photo of (goat's head) Seal-impression, and Signature, of Thomas Morton -- 4) "The Wrong" Thomas Morton portrait in The Dictionary of Literary Biography -- 5) Renaissance world-map showing "the Golden Mean" or Temperate Zones, with Zodiac -- 6) 1580 "mythology-handbook" engraving, "De Glauco" (Glaucus and Scilla) -- 7) Scene from Lescarbot's The Theatre of Neptune in New France (1606) -- 8) Map of London c. 1593 -- 9) The Inns of Court: Clifford's Inn -- 10) Garden behind Clifford's Inn -- 11) Middle Temple Hall -- 12) Sketch of Sir Ferdinando Gorges' home -- 13) Native American "New England" at the beginning of European contact -- 14) Massachusetts Bay c. 1620-1630 -- 15) Map showing Massachusetts Bay Colony's 1629 chartered lands -- 16) Colonial New England by the 1640s -- 17) 1635 Dutch map of New England showing "Lake of the Erocoise -- 18) 1800s view "Seaward from Mount Wollaston -- 19) 1840s sketch of "Mount Wollaston" (site of Ma-re Mount) -- 20) A Native New England village c. 1600s -- 21) Squa Rock, in Squantum, Mass -- 22) Hopewell carving of mother &. ; child -- and a New England Native sculpture -- 23) Native American "planting calendar" site in Connecticutt -- 24) "Festivities at Merry Mount -- 25) "Myles Standish Breaks Up...Effort to Fraternize -- 26) Archaeological artifacts from Ma-re Mount -- 27) Head of trade-ax, whetstone etc. from "Quincy Patriot Ledger" 1955 -- 28) An original first page of New English Canaan (1637)---and five selected original folios -- 29) Facsimile of the only "1632" front page of Canaan (British Library) -- 30) Front page of Canaan from Force's 1832 reprint edition -- 31) Facsimile of Thomas Morton's Last Will and Testament -- 32) Facsimile of Thomas Morton's 1645 "Petition to the Honourable Court at Boston -- 33, 34, 35, 36) Libretto front page from New York Metropolitan Opera's 1933 Merry Mount -- and photos of staging for Acts 1, 2 and 3.
• Titolo autorizzato: Thomas Morton of "Merrymount"
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823875603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II