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Colonial Prose and Poetry
In the earlier period men lived earnestly if not largely, they thought highly if not broadly, they felt nobly if not always with magnanimity.
Preface
Trent and Wells

Colonial Prose and Poetry

Edited by William P. Trent and Benjamin W. Wells

The 57 writers in these three volumes spannning more than a century and a half represent the literary and cultural trends in Colonial North America—from the confrontation with the American Indians to Puritan life to opposition to slavery.

Bibliographic Record

Contents

 Preface
NEW YORK: THOMAS Y. CROWELL & Co., 1901
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2010

Vol. I. The Transplanting of Culture: 1607–1650
Introduction
Captain John Smith
Colonel Norwood
William Bradford
Thomas Morton
Francis Higginson
John Winthrop
The Bay Psalm Book
John Underhill
John Mason
John Cotton
Roger Williams
Thomas Hooker
Thomas Shepard
Nathaniel Ward
Anne Bradstreet
Vol. II. The Beginnings of Americanism: 1650–1710
Introduction
Edward Johnson
John Eliot
Michael Wigglesworth
John Josselyn
Daniel Gookin
Thomas Wheeler
Peter Folger
William Penn
Daniel Denton
George Alsop
Narratives Dealing with Bacon’s Rebellion
William Hubbard
Mary Rowlandson
Urian Oakes
Increase Mather
Cotton Mather
Verses from the Magnalia
Samuel Sewall
Sarah Kemble Knight
Robert Beverly
Vol. III. The Growth of the National Spirit: 1710–1775
Introduction
John Wise
Hugh Jones
William Byrd
The New England Primer
Benjamin Colman and the Turells
John Seccomb
Patrick Tailfer
Thomas Prince
William Douglass
William Stith
Jonathan Edwards
Benjamin Franklin
Mather Byles
Joseph Green
John Osborn
Thomas Hutchinson
John Barnard
Benjamin Church
Thomas Godfrey and Nathaniel Evans
Jonathan Boucher
John Woolman
Philip Vickers Fithian