Author: Peltola, Niilo
Title: The Compound Epithet and its Use in American Poetry from Bradstreet through Whitman
Description: Helsinki, Suolamalaisen Tiedeakatemia, 1956. orig. wrappers. 24x16cm, 299 pp, Cover bears only series title: Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian Toimituksia, Sarja B, Nid. 105.. Unopened, minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: The Origins of the Compound Epithet: The Old English & Middle English Periods; The Rebirth & Evolution of the Compound Epithet in Modern English Poetry; The Colonial Period: Anne Bradstreet; Michael Wigglesworth;Edward Taylor; The Revolutionary Period: John Trumbull; Joel Barlow; Timothy Dwight; Philip Freneau; Two Early Masters of American Verse: Edgar Allan Poe; William Cullen Bryant; The Genteel Tradition of New England: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; John Greenleaf Whittier; James Russell Lowell; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Walt Whitman; Principles of Classification; Historical Survey of the Types of Compound Adjectives; The Compound Epithets Classified by Author & by Type; Tables.

Keywords: Compound Epithet, American English, Literary Criticism, Poetry, Poetics, Stylistics, Adjectives, Poetic Style, Linguistics