Roget's Int'l Thesaurus Fowler's King's English The King James
Bible Brewer's Phrase & Fable Frazer's Golden Bough Shelf of
Fiction Colonial and Revolutionary Literature; Early National
Literature, Part I The Beginnings of Verse, 16101808 > Lyric
Poetry INDEX OF ALL CHAPTERS The Cambridge History of English
and American Literature in 18 Volumes VOLUME XV. Colonial and
Revolutionary Literature; Early National Literature, Part I. The
Beginnings of Verse, 16101808 § 17. Lyric Poetry. Volumes of
miscellaneous short poems began to appear in 1765, but, owing to
the Revolution and its attendant changes, ceased almost entirely
between 1770 and 1790, and revived only during the last decade
of the century. Though intrinsically of little merit, they show
in the main that Pope and the long poem were not absolutely
dominant and that Americans were reading English lyrical poetry
and were learning to write graceful verse which certain of the
public were ready to read. This public was small enough,
however, for most of the v