Bibliograph

History of American verse, 1600-1897, James L. Onderdonk

Type

Label

History of American verse, 1600-1897, James L. Onderdonk

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

History of American verse, 1600-1897

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

James L. Onderdonk

Summary

Beginning with the first American ballad at the time of Elizabeth I, this wide-ranging 1901 survey covers the Puritans; colonial literature; nationalism; women writers; the "Knickerbocker School;" poets of nature, sentiment, and passion; humor and satire; idyllic and lyric poets; idealists and realists; anti-slavery verse; and many authors, including William Cullen Bryant, Longfellow, and Whitman

Target audience

adult

Classification