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A: Colonial, or Pioneer Singers:
 * 1: : 1721—1796.
 * Official bard “Green Mountain Boys”; later known as “The Shoreham Bard”.
 * Early life, Hebron, Conn.; pioneer, Danby., Vt. 1768; legislative activity; poetic improvisations; influence in western counties.
 * 2. : 1741—1827.
 * (a) Education; early career in Connecticut; as minister; as author of “The American Hero”.
 * (b) Ethical, Literary and political career at West Fairlee, Vt.
 * 3: : 1765—1796.
 * Education; early life; removal to St. Johnsbury; death and posthumous issue of “Poems”, 1797. The first published volume of Vermont Poetry.
 * 4: : 1737—1812.
 * His Manuscript Diary and his Book of Manuscript Poems.
 * 4: : 1737—1812.
 * His Manuscript Diary and his Book of Manuscript Poems.
 * His Manuscript Diary and his Book of Manuscript Poems.

B: Formative Writers—
 * The “Golden Era of Vermont Song”.

Major Poets:

I: 1757—1826.
 * 1. Early career in Massachusetts: 1757—90.
 * His family; college training; early associates; military experiences; first literary achievements; mental crisis.
 * 2: Ten years in Guilford: 1790—1800.
 * Legal practice; literary activity; formation of a “school” of poets and prose writers; newspaper activity.
 * 3: Later career in Brattleboro: 1800—1826.
 * Legal and judicial achievements; social and literary work; last years.
 * One of the “founders” of American literature.
 * Unpublished manuscripts.
 * LITERARY RESUME:
 * (a) Comedy Dramas:
 * “The Contrast,” 1789.
 * “May Day in Town,” 1789.
 * “The Georgia Spec, or Land in the Moon,” 1797.