New-York Gazetteer
Newspaper.
1784–1785.
Folger MS M.a.116
Title | A Selection of Modern Poems |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Azarias Williams, 1785–1790.
The compiler blurs his own voice with that of his sources by signing his name to much of what he copies.
78 poems.
Choices seem significant autobiographically—themes of emigration, social behaviour, British patriotism, New York, death, children, sentimental courtship, male unfaithfulness/libertinism, religious/devotional expressions, and topographical poetry.