Thomas Morton of Merrymount: The Life and Renaissance of an Early American Poet

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Summary

How did this vigorous Elizabethan, born to the "outdoors culture" of England's West Country, become America's most controversial early colonist?

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List of Illustrations (at back)	p. vii
A Sampler of Remarks on Morton and Canaan	p. ix
Contexts and Chronology	p. xvii
Family, Sensibility, the Times	p. 5
Education	p. 29
At the Inns of Court	p. 41
Exit to America	p. 63
Antimasque: America's First Poetry in English	p. 83
New World, New Life	p. 127
Failure and Fortune	p. 153
Family Values	p. 163
Revel, Arrest and Return	p. 191
Masque: The Riddle of May Day	p. 218
Banned in Boston: Second Exile, Canaan, and Revenge	p. 247
Land of the New Creed	p. 291
Bibliographies
Works Cited	p. 317
1492-1637: Influences and Contemporaries	p. 355
Index	p. 365
Maps and Illustrations, Documents and Artifacts	p. 376
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