Discoveries and Considerations
Papers on Early American Literature and Aesthetics Presented to Harold Jantz
Examines various aspects of the history and criticism of early American literature.
Description
A collection of eight essays focusing on early American poetry, aesthetics, intellectual history, biography, and literary history. Poets of the American Baroque and selected seventeenth-century writers are analyzed, sources and influences on early American painting and theatre are explored, and finally, Thomas Morton is traced as a character and symbol in American literature. Announced for the first time is the discovery of a new and significant seventeenth-century American poet, David Dunster.