American Poetry: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (book review)
relentless rhyming…
Book review:
American Poetry:
The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
David S. Shields, ed.
New York: The Library of America, 2007
This is my first exposure to nearly all of the 107 poets whose work is anthologized in this volume.
Many of them were, undoubtedly, ambitious and captivated by the mysterious arts of poetry.
For my taste, there is just way too much of relentlessly rhyming couplets and page after page after page of repetitive celebrations and salutations.
I keep in mind that nobody had TV in those days.
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