Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown

Michael C. Cohen; Alexandra Socarides

doi:10.5771/9781611484571

Summary

Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810) was a key writer of the revolutionary era and early U.S. republic, known for his landmark novels and other writings in a variety of genres. The Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown presents all of Brown’s non-novelistic writings—letters, political pamphlets, fictions, periodical writings, historical writings, and poety—in a seven-volume scholarly set. This series’ volumes are edited to the highest scholarly standards and will bear the seal of the Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions (MLA-CSE).

Poems,volume 7 of the series, is the first comprehensive collection of the poetry of Charles Brockden Brown (1771– 1810), one of the earliest professional writers in U.S. history. While Brown is well known as a novelist, his poetry has never before been collected, and many of the works included in this book appear in print for the first time in 200 years. The Committee on Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association has awarded the volume a seal of certification as an MLA Approved Scholarly Edition. Each edited text has a detailed textual note providing publication history, provenance, and information on attribution, along with extensive scholarly annotations. A historical introduction locates the poems in Brown’s biography, the print culture of the Revolutionary Atlantic world, and the literary history of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, while a textual essay provides full bibliographical information on the sources for all copy-texts, as well as an extensive description of the editorial protocols. The volume therefore promises to reshape our understanding of professional literary writing in the period after the American Revolution.

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Copyright year: 2020
ISBN-Print: 978-1-61148-456-4
ISBN-Online: 978-1-61148-457-1
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 354
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Illustrations No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. Poem 1 “On Some of His School Fellows”: 1786–1787 No access
2. Poem 2 “Aretas”: 1787 No access
3. Poem 3 “For the Grocer’s Window”: 1787 No access
4. Poem 4 “To Miss D. P.”: 1787–1789 No access
5. Poem 5 “The Rising Glory of America”: 1787–1788 No access
6. Poem 6 “The Times”: 1787–1788 No access
7. Poem 7 “Epistle the First”: 1788 No access
8. Poem 8 “In Praise of Schuylkill”: 1788 No access
9. Poem 9 “To Estrina”: 1789/(1805) No access
10. Poem 10 “To D. F.”: 1790–1794 No access
11. Poem 11 “An Inscription for General Washington’s Tomb Stone”: 1789 No access
12. Poem 12 “Henry”: 1790 No access
13. Poem 13 “Sonnet. Written after Hearing a Song Sung by Several Sisters”: 1791 No access
14. Poem 14 “To Ella”: 1791 No access
15. Poem 15 “The Smile. Sonnet to Caroline”: 1791 No access
16. Poem 16 “Song”: 1791 No access
17. Poem 17 “Sonnet”: 1792 No access
18. Poem 18 [“In ‘Delphy town”]: 1792 No access
19. Poem 19 “A Peter-Pindarical Performance”: 1792 No access
20. Poem 20 [“When Bringhurst and Wilkins are here”]: 1792 No access
21. Poem 21 “Introduction to a Heroi-Comic Poem on Loo”: 1792 No access
22. Poem 22 [“Profuse and prolix is the treat”]: 1792 No access
23. Poem 23 [“Of sweet little things, a sweet musical string”]: 1792 No access
24. Poem 24 “To Stella.—No. I”: 1798 No access
25. Poem 25 “To Stella.—No. III”: 1798 No access
26. Poem 26 “To Stella.—No. V”: 1798 No access
27. Poem 27 “A Billet-Doux”: 1798 No access
28. Poem 28 [“Tis party that destroys the state”]: 1798–1801 No access
29. Poem 29 [“From Virtue’s blissful paths away”]: 1798 No access
30. Poem 30 [“Sleep, extend thy downy pinion”]: 1799 No access
31. Poem 31 [“The breeze awakes, the bark prepares”]: 1799 No access
32. Poem 32 [“Ah! far beyond this world of woes”]: 1799 No access
33. Poem 33 “To Stella”: 1799 No access
34. Poem 34 “Monody on the Death of George Washington”: 1799 No access
35. Poem 35 [“’Tis not the river’s pebbly bound”]: 1800 No access
36. Poem 36 “Jessy’s Song”: 1800 / (1811) No access
37. Poem 37 [“Long strove a rueful fate to bend”]:1801 No access
38. Poem 38 [“Inchanting Tongue!”]: 1801 No access
39. Poem 39 “To Laura. On Her Attachment to Homer’s Iliad”: 1801 No access
40. Poem 40 “The Rans de Vache of Tuscany”: 1801 No access
41. Poem 41 “L’Amoroso”: 1801 No access
42. Poem 42 “The Water-Drinker, an Anti-Anacreontic”: 1801 No access
43. Poem 43 “The Poet’s Prayer. (Not for fame, but for virtue.)An Epistle to Stella”: 1801 No access
44. Poem 44 [“They came at noon & chose to stay”]: 1801 No access
45. Poem 45 “Solitary Worship”: 1802 No access
46. Poem 46 “Alliteration”: 1802 No access
47. Poem 47 “To Laura, Offended”: 1803 No access
48. Poem 48 “To Clara”: 1804 No access
49. Poem 49 [“Marry wisdom, and beauty & wealth if you can”]: 1806 No access
50. Poem 50 “Devotion. An Epistle”: 1794 / (1808) No access
51. 51“To Clara (On the Death of a Friend)”: 1808 / (1815) No access
Illustrations No access Pages 247 - 255
Historical Essay No access Pages 256 - 292
Textual Essay No access Pages 293 - 303
Description of Provenance No access Pages 304 - 314
1. Poem 52 “Utrum horum Mavis, elige”: 1788 No access
2. Poem 53 “A Negro’s Lamentation”: 1800 No access
3. Poem 54 “Pleasures of the Table”: 1801 No access
APPENDIX 2 POEMS PREVIOUSLY ATTRIBUTED TO BROWN NOW EXCLUDED No access Pages 333 - 339
Selected Bibliography No access Pages 340 - 343
Index No access Pages 344 - 354