Allston. Edited by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. New York: Baker and Scribner, 1850. xi, 380 p. 8º.

NBI

In addition to the poems mentioned in the previous entry, includes America to Great Britain. This poem, written in 1810, was inserted by Coleridge in the first edition of his Sibylline leaves, London, 1817, p. 276-278, with the following note: “This poem, written by an American gentleman, a valued and dear friend, I communicate to the reader for its moral, no less than its poetic spirit.”

Alsop, George, b. 1638. A character of the province of Maryland, wherein is described in four distinct parts, (viz.) i. The situation, and plenty of the province. ii. The laws, customs, and natural demeanor of the inhabitant. iii. The worst and best usage of a Maryland servant, opened in view. iv. The traffique, and vendable commodities of the countrey. Also a small treatise on the wild and naked Indians (or Susquehanokes) of Mary-Land, their customs, manners, absurdities, & religion. Together with a collection of historical letters. By George Alsop. London, Printed by T. J. for Peter Dring, at the sign of the Sun in the Poultrey: 1666. 10 p.l., 118 p., 2 l., 1 port. (8º.)

Reserve

1 facsimile portrait inserted.

Poems on the following pages: p.l. 6-7; p. 26, 44-45, 55, 75-80, 82-83, 103-104, 108-111.

—— —— A new edition with an introduction and copious historical notes. By John Gilmary Shea.... New York: William Gowans, 1869. 125 p., 1 map, 1 port. 8º. (Gowans’ Bibliotheca Americana, no. 5.)

ISG and IAG

Includes a type-facsimile title-page.

Reissued as Fund publication, no. 15, of the Mary-land Historical Society, IAA.

—— —— Reprinted from the original edition of 1666. With introduction and notes by Newton D. Mereness.... Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers Company, 1902. 113 p., 1 map, 1 pl., 1 port. 8º.

ISG

Includes a reduced photo-facsimile of original title-page.

No. 145 of 250 copies printed.

Alsop, Richard, 1761-1815. The charms of fancy: a poem in four cantos, with notes. By Richard Alsop. Edited from the original manuscripts, with a biographical sketch of the author, by Theodore Dwight. New York: D. Appleton and Company, m. dccc. lvi. xii p., 1 l., (1)14-214 p. 8º.

NBHD

This poem was mostly written before 1788.

—— Elegy. (In: E. A. and G. L. Duyckinck, Cyclopædia of American literature. New York, 1866. 8º. v. 1, p. 497.)

NBB

—— An elegy written in February 1791. (In: American poems, selected and original. Litchfield, 1793. 12º. p. 251-255.)

Reserve and NBH

Also printed in The Columbian muse, New York, 1794, p. 190-194, NBH.

—— Extract from the Conquest of Scandinavia; being the introduction to the fourth book. (In: American poems, selected and original. Litchfield, 1793. 12º. p. 272-284.)

Reserve and NBH

—— Habakkuk, chap. iii. (In: American poems, selected and original. Litchfield, 1793. 12º. p. 263-264.)

Reserve and NBH

—— The incantation of Ulfo. From the Conquest of Scandinavia. (In: Samuel Kettell, Specimens of American poetry. Boston, 1829. 12º. v. 2, p. 61-67.)

NBH

—— A poem; sacred to the memory of George Washington, late president of the United States, and commander in chief of the armies of the United States. Adapted to the 22d of Feb. 1800. By Richard Alsop. Hartford: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin. 1800. 23 p. 8º.

Reserve

This poem was delivered by Richard Alsop before the citizens of Middletown, Conn., at the memorial service of February 22, 1800.

—— Twilight of the Gods; or Destruction of the world, from the Edda, a system of ancient Scandinavian mythology. (In: American poems, selected and original. Litchfield, 1793. 12º. p. 265-272.)

Reserve and NBH

—— Verses to the shearwater—on the morning after the storm at sea. (In: Samuel Kettell, Specimens of American poetry. Boston, 1829. 12º. v. 2, p. 60-61.)

NBH

—— Versification of a passage from the fifth book of Ossian’s Temora. (In: American poems, selected and original. Litchfield, 1793. 12º. p. 255-262.)

Reserve and NBH

—— See also The Echo; The Political greenhouse for the year 1798.

An American, pseud. Crystalina; a fairy tale. See Harney, John Milton.

An American, pseud. See Oppression, a poem.

An American, pseud. See Prime, Benjamin Young.

American poems, selected and original. Vol. 1. Litchfield: Printed by Collier and Buel. [1793.] (The copy right secured as the Act directs.) viii, 304 p., 4 l. 12º.

Reserve and NBH

No more published.

“The first general collection of poetry ever attempted in this country.”—C. W. Everest, Poets of Connecticut, Hartford, 1843, p. 103.

The editorship is attributed by Everest to Dr. Elihu Hubbard Smith, but the postscript to the preface of the work p. [vi] refers to “the ill health of one of the editors.”

The Reserve copy contains the autographs of Daniel Crocker, Samuel Austin, and Samuel G. Drake.

Contents: Elegy on the times; Elegy on the death of Mr. Buckingham St. John; Ambition; Prophecy of Balaam; Downfall of Babylon; Speech of Proteus to Aristæus; by John Trumbull.—Trial of faith; Address to genius of Columbia; Columbia; The seasons moralized; A hymn; A song; The critics; Epistle to Col. Humphreys; by Timothy Dwight.—The prospect of peace; A poem spoken at commencement at Yale College; Elegy on Titus Hosmer; by Joel Barlow.—Elegy on burning of Fairfield, Connecticut; Elegy on Lieut. De Hart; Mount Vernon; An ode addressed to Laura; Genius of America; Epistle to Dr. Dwight; A song translated from the French; by David Humphreys.—Epitaph on a patient killed by cancer