Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sewall, Samuel
• Winthrop, John
• Green, Timothy

Titel

Upon the drying up that ancient river, the river Merrymak [Elektronische Ressource]

Ort / Verlag

[New London, Conn.?] : Printed by Timothy Green?

Erscheinungsjahr

1721

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• According to Sewall's diary, an earlier edition of his poem was printed on February 8, 1720/21. No copy is known. - Bristol, B613. - English Short Title Catalog, W6603. - Followed by another poem, entitled, Connecticut's flood, on Merrymak's ebb; first line: And is old Merrymak come to an end? Signed and dated, "Extempore, March 10, 1720,21. Anthropos." Attributed to John Winthrop, of New-London, by M. Halsey Thomas in The diary of Samuel Sewall, New York, 1973, v. 2, p. 1100-1101. - Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 480. - Imprint suggested by Johnson. - Johnson, H.A. New London, 137. - Printed side by side on sheet; possibly intended to be separated. - Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library. - Shipton & Mooney, 39752. - Verse of thirty-six lines; first line: Long did Euphrates make us glad. Signed and dated: January 15. 1719,20. S.S. [i.e., Samuel Sewall]. - Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 357
• Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:[1721]
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