A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 Through 1820 by Roger E Stoddard

A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 Through 1820 by Roger E Stoddard

A bibliography of poetry composed in what is now the United States of America and printed in the form of books or pamphlets before 1821.

“This important, indeed groundbreaking, work promises to contribute immensely to our understanding of both early American literary culture and the history of American publishing and printing, while also opening up many avenues for fruitful future researchThe result of a lifetime of work by Roger Stoddard, bookman extraordinaire, and diligently edited by David Whitesell, this bibliography provides a definitive record of the canon of early American poetry with detailed descriptions, many discoveries and new attributions, and extensive listings of holdings.”

—Michael Winship, University of Texas at Austin

“This descriptive bibliography stands as a landmark of bibliographical scholarship related to early American imprints of verse.”

—R. M. Roberts Choice

“This book is an outstanding scholarly achievement, the work of a scholarly lifetime to which students of early American poetry will be indebted for generations to come. Its meticulous research is judiciously assembled and framed so as to guarantee maximum ease of access to the more than one thousand works described.”

—Lawrence Buell, Harvard University

“This volume demonstrates to glorious effect what scrupulous bibliography can bring to literary history and critical evaluation. . . . Stoddard’s great achievement here is to encourage further scholarship on the appreciation of the poetry of early America all over the world, and not just in English.”

—James Raven Times Literary Supplement

“This is a landmark contribution to early American bibliography, a must for all libraries with an interest in literature, Americana, or bibliography.”

—Karen Attar The Library

“A great work of enumerative bibliography. . . . A notable monument of fact about what made the poets of America take to verse to express it.”

—Nicolas Barker The Book Collector

Roger E. Stoddard worked for forty-two years in the Harvard Library, retiring in 2004 as Curator of Rare Books in the Harvard College Library, Senior Curator in the Houghton Library, and Senior Lecturer on English. Since then he has published bibliographies of Jacques-Charles Brunet, Primo Levi, and W. G. Sebald.

David R. Whitesell is Curator in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia; he previously served as Curator of Books at the American Antiquarian Society.

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ISBN 13	9780271052229
ISBN 10	0271052228
Title	A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 Through 1820
Author	Roger E Stoddard
Series	Penn State Series In The History Of The Book
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pennsylvania State University Press
Year published	2014-11-15
Number of pages	832
Prizes	Winner of MLA Prize for a Bibliography, Archive, or Digital Project 2013
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