1. Style and structure: Anne Bradstreet: some thoughts on the tenth muse -- Edward Taylor and the American baroque -- 2. Theme and ideology: The many versions of Polly Baker: deism and human rights -- Paine and Dickinson: politics and literature -- The concept of ancients and moderns in American poetry of the Federal period -- The apex of American literary nationalism -- 3. The two Americas: North and South: Thomas Paine and Latin American independence -- The Enlightenment in the Americas.