Philip Walker
Auteur : Philip Walker
Date de publication : 1676
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Résumé du livre
Following the defeat of Captain Michael Pierce (1615?-1676) and his men at the Pawtucket River, Rhode Island, during King Philip's War, 26 March 1676, Walker wrote "Captain Perse and his coragious Company" as a tribute. The work, considered to be a combination of epic poem and broadside ballad, includes descriptions of the founding of the new country as well as attribution of blame for the war to a falling away from early Puritan tenets. Walker compares the Indian leaders to the notorious Nero and Diocletian and advocates policies which he feels should be implemented against the "savages." The poem provides a good example of the vocabulary in use during that period in America.