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Beyond 1492: Encounters in Colonial North America

Book by James Axtell; Oxford University Press, 1992

Subjects:

America--Discovery And Exploration--Spanish, Columbus, Christopher--Influence, Indians Of North America--History--16th Century, Indians Of North America--History--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775, North America--Discovery And Exploration, North America--History--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Subversive Archipelagos: Colonial Discourse and the Break-up...Problems in Current Theories of Colonial Discourse," Oxford Literary...1492- 1992: Re/Discovering Colonial Writing, Hispanic Issues...Aime Cesaire, The Collected Poetry , trans. Clayton Eshleman...
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Colonial America: A History in Documents

Book by Edward G. Gray; Oxford University Press, 2003

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United States--History--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775--Sources--Juvenile Literature

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Settlements in Nortb America 1584-1590 (Raleigh...Indian Voices from Early America (Boston: Bedford...Miller, ed., The Colonial Image (New York: George...Seventeentb- Century American Poetry (New York: W W Norton...Indian Peoples of Eastern America: A Documentary History...
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Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815

Book by Kerby A. Miller, Arnold Schrier, Bruce D. Boling, David N. Doyle; Oxford University Press, 2003

Subjects:

Immigrants--United States--Biography, Immigrants--United States--History--Sources, Irish Americans--Biography, Irish Americans--History--Sources, United States--History--1783-1865--Biography, United States--History--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775--Biography, United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Biography

Collections: History, Entire Library

...425 26n.61 plantations, America. See farmers and planters...138 Poag, Robert, 389n.25 poetry anonymous Ulster portrayal...attempted establishment in America and, 515 19 as emigration...England establishment attempt in America and, 515 19 civic virtue debate...
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The Poetry Society of America Anthology

Book by Amy Bonner; The Fine Editions Press, 1946

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American Poetry--20th Century, Poetry

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...been Eastern Representative of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, where...and editorial writer, and as poetry critic for that newspaper as...publications. She conducted the poetry symposiums at the Brooklyn...Field , both published by the Colonial Press in 1937.
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The Colonial Revival in America

Book by Alan Axelrod; W. W. Norton, 1985

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Arts, Modern--19th Century--United States, Colonial Revival (Art)

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...mischievous boy" were found to contain forgotten treasures, and lessons galore. "Old garrets are really factories of History, Poetry, and the Drama," Sherwood told the readers of Home Amusements 1881 . "The taste for old furniture has rather emptied the...

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Journal Articles on: poetry colonial america

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Spenser's Irish Work: Poetry, Plantation and Colonial Reformation

Journal article by Richard F. Hardin; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 61, 2008

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Books--Book reviews, Spenser's Irish Work: Poetry, Plantation and Colonial Reformation (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

Spensers Irish Work: Poetry, Plantation and Colonial Reformation. by Richard F. Hardin...Herron. Spensers Irish Work: Poetry, Plantation and Colonial Reformation...endeavors. Chapter 4 discusses the poetry of Irish settlers Ralph Birkenshaw...
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Slavery, Servitude, and British Representations of Colonial North America

Journal article by Matthew Mason; Southern Quarterly, Vol. 43, 2006

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Colonial period-US, Colonies & territories, English literature, North America, Slavery

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...British Representations of Colonial North America by Matthew Mason In the...divided conception of America tilted decidedly towards...popular fiction to obscure poetry and memoir, British...when they wrote about America. A voyage to America...
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Some Colonial American Poetry and George Herbert

Journal article by John T. Shawcross; Early American Literature, Vol. 23, 1988

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American Literature--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775, American Literature--Revolutionary Period, 1775-1783

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...lively. Its influence on Colonial American poetry is worthy of recognition...obscuring what that American poetry is doing and does achieve...for Colonial American poetry and especially for that...poetry written in Colonial America, they are limited,
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Interning America's Colonial History: The Anthologies and Poetry of Lawson Fusao Inada

Journal article by Ryan Burt; MELUS, Vol. 35, 2010

Subjects:

Asian American literature--Criticism and interpretation, Inada, Lawson Fusao--Criticism and interpretation, Inada, Lawson Fusao--Works, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, United States history--Portrayals

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...and drawing out the colonial doublings linking wartime internment to US colonial policy, Inada interrogates...which he considers his poetry a part of the process...in relationship to US colonial projects that moved...communities in North America. In the introduction...
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Watts for Singing: Metrical Poetry in American Sacred Tunebooks, 1761-1785

Journal article by Richard Crawford; Early American Literature, Vol. 11, 1976

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American Literature--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775, American Literature--Revolutionary Period, 1775-1783

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...metrical psalms and hymns published in America at any time, and particularly in the years...hymns form an important strain of popular poetry in colonial and Revolutionary America. Sacred sung poetry fosters experience both broad and deep...

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Magazine Articles on: poetry colonial america

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An "Imagination of Order": The Suspicion of Structure in Anthropology and Poetry

Magazine article by Kent Maynard; The Antioch Review, Vol. 60, Spring 2002

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Anthropological research--Analysis, Authorship--Methods, Ethnology--Authorship, Poetry--Authorship, Poets--Authorship

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...animate much of American poetry; in one way or another...The pure products of America / go crazy--." Yet...turned to Paterson, to a poetry that revels in colloquial...Story of Africans in America). Yet, even when we...on the shift in lyric poetry and ethnography toward...
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The Fast Lane: Colonial Americans Comment on Modern-Day Life in Omer Fast's Edited World. Rachel Withers Is Intrigued

Magazine article by Rachel Withers; New Statesman, Vol. 134, October 3, 2005

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Fast, Omar--Criticism and interpretation, Fast, Omar--Exhibitions, Video art--Criticism and interpretation

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The Fast Lane: Colonial Americans Comment on...the "living museum" Colonial Williamsburg, they...shot on location at Colonial Williamsburg; others...scenery in suburban America. Captioned with the...interested in finding the poetry within the anxiety...
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Maracaibo's Pipeline of Wealth and Woes: Once a Pristine Colonial Trade Center, Venezuela's Second Largest City Is Facing Environmental and Social Issues Intricately Linked to Its Vast Petroleum Resources

Magazine article by Mike Ceaser; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 55, March 2003

Subjects:

Maracaibo, Venezuela--Economic aspects, Maracaibo, Venezuela--Social aspects, Petroleum industry--Economic aspects, Petroleum industry--Social aspects

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...of Wealth and Woes: Once a Pristine Colonial Trade Center, Venezuelas Second Largest...importance was mostly a memory--of a grand colonial time when its great wealth in hides...dwellings from the republican and even colonial periods still stand, often brightly...
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What Colonial Education Did to Africans

Magazine article by Ayi Kwei Armah; New African, May 2006

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Africans--Educational aspects, Africans--Social aspects, Community education--Analysis

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What Colonial Education Did to Africans. by Ayi Kwei...received wisdom" from Europe via a colonial education system planned to pull his...an exceptionally unhappy childhood. Colonial Africa was a locus of pervasive misery...
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Misfit America: Many of the Values and Cultural Attributes That Once Made the United States Unique Have Eroded; Those That Remain Look Increasingly Ugly to Some Foreigners. Is Our Evolving National Character a Liability in Our Foreign Relations?

Magazine article by Paul Starobin; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 297, January 2006

Subjects:

American national characteristics--Evaluation, American national characteristics--Forecasts and trends, American national characteristics--Public opinion, Civilization--Evaluation, Civilization--International aspects, Civilization--Public opinion, Culture--Evaluation, Culture--International aspects, Culture--Public opinion, National characteristics, American--Evaluation, National characteristics, American--Forecasts and trends, National characteristics, American--Public opinion

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...Myself," to celebrate America as a Jacksonian jumble...place.
poetry also evokes an innocence that once seemed to brand America as refreshingly different...a rebellion against a colonial power; they read the...Georgias eager alliance with America, but the admiration...

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Newspaper Articles on: poetry colonial america

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Bookshelf; UP Centennial Gawad Likhaan Launched

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, April 21, 2007

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Poetry

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...collection in Filipino; a poetry collection in English; a poetry collection in Filipino...sciences, he has explored the colonial and post-colonial in the Philippines and its...perspective on Filipino life in America reconnects the diaspora...
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Life of Miss Liberty's Muse

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 24, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...family who had been in America since colonial times, Lazarus was just...work. Reading about her poetry, fiction, verse drama...in 2005 the Library of America series published a selection of her poetry edited by John Hollander...
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Courtship Hasn't Always Included Dating

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), February 11, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...idea of serenading a woman with poetry is one tradition that has fallen...request to be escorted home. In colonial America, colonists would marry not of...and serenade someone with flowery poetry, but wheres the fun in that...
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Pomp and Prejudice; Looking for Insights in All the Right Places

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 24, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...regularly published poetry. John F. Kennedy...new Augustan Age in America, made of strength...A golden age of poetry and power." When...nations emancipation from colonial rule. The university in America traced its origins...
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I Am Very Prone to Accept All That the Scientists Tell Us, the Truth of It. but I Can't Quite Make the Leap of Unfaith, as It Were, and Say: 'This Is It. Carpe Diem, and Tough Luck' the American Literary Giant John Updike Has Died Aged 76. Here We Pay Tribute to the Double Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist Who Chronicled Sex, Divorce and Other Adventures of a Post-War US in Its Prime

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), January 29, 2009

Subjects:

Updike, John

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Hamlet" to post-colonial Africa, but his literary...was the small-town America. Born in 1932, Updike...collection, a book of poetry and his first novel...of Boston. "The real America seemed to me out there...wanted to be in smalltown America... "What is America...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: poetry colonial america

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Spanish American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...explorers of Spanish America and its later inhabitants...Brazilian literature . The Colonial Era The history of Spanish...legend" of Spain. Early poetry includes Chiles epic...Spanish colonial society in America came the concomitant...known for her lyric poetry, plays, and prose...
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Children's Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...schools in England and colonial America. More enjoyable and...style for much of the poetry written for children...children, especially poetry, such as Richard Lewiss...Stories from 19th-Century America (1989); J. Wullschlager...
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Taylor, Edward

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...clergyman, b. England, considered Americas foremost colonial poet. He emigrated to America in 1668 and graduated from Harvard in 1671. From...did not publish his poems in his lifetime, his poetry remained in manuscript until 1937. In 1939...
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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the United States of America. Colonial Literature American writing...1702). Even Puritan poetry was offered uniformly...Muse Lately Sprung Up in America (1650), were reflective...skilled and emotional poetry, clearly expressed aesthetic...
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Almanac

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...statistics of all sorts, jokes, and even fiction and poetry. The first production (except for a broadside) of printing in British North America was an almanac for the year 1639. One of the best colonial almanacs was the Astronomical Diary and Almanack...

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