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Acknowledgments I ACKNOWLEDGE, gratefully, the cooperation of editors and publishers who have permitted me to include their materials in this anthology. Selections from Anne Bradstreet are reprinted by permission of the publishers from The Works of Anne Bradstreet, ed. Jeannine Hensley (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [c] 1967 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College). Edward Taylor's poems follow the text of The Poems of Edward Taylor, ed. Donald Stanford (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1960), with the permission of Donald Stanford and the Yale University Press. "A Fragment of Bion," from The Last Poems ofPhilip Freneau, ed. Lewis Leary (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1945), appears with Lewis Leary's permission. xiii [18.218.129.100] Project MUSE (2024-04-26 07:25 GMT) EARLY AMERICAN POETRY ...

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