The Beginnings of the American Poetical Miscellany, 1714-1800

W5, T HILE THE English poetical miscellany has, in recent years, VI V received the attention of scholars, its counterpart in Colonial America has been almost entirely ignored. No doubt this is explained in part by the fact that the study of the miscellany as a distinct and important genre has come into prominence only since I935, at which time the first extensive bibliography, Arthur E. Case's Bibliography of English Poetical Miscellanies I52I-I750, was published.1 Professor Case lists the first well-known American miscellany, the Collection of Poems. By Several Hands (Boston, I744), while another bibliographer, Mr. Norman Ault, adds several titles, particularly in the later period.2 The purpose of this article is to give an overall picture of the early American verse anthology, with special emphasis on the volumes printed before i770.3

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• Early American Copies of Milton

  Leon Howard•The Huntington Library Bulletin•1935

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