Letters of Shahcoolen, a Hindu philosopher residing in Philadelphia, to his friend El Hassan, an inhabitant of Delhi.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo), 1783-1838.

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 2490.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

152 pages ; 19 cm

6x9 in.

monochrome

service copy

positive

Place of Publication:

Boston : Printed by Russell and Cutler, 1802.

Contents:

General account of the new philosophy

Mary Woolstonecraft

Practical influence of her writings upon the women of the United States

State of the female sex in the United States

States of American poetry ; American poets, extracts from their writings

Scenes of nature in America, calculated to excite poetical enthusiasm; comparison of them with those of Hindustan

Selections from Hindu poetry; remarks

Poetry of the Scripures; Solomon's song, resemblance between it and the Gitagovinda of Jayadeva

Solomon's song considered as a poem; selections from it

Attachment of the writer to poetry; selections from the Gitagovinda

Dialogue with a modern philosopher.

Notes:

For a listing of titles in each box consult American bibliography : a preliminary checklist for 1801-1819 / compiled by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.

"Originally published in the New York Commercial Advertiser": p. [7]

Microopaque. Worcester, Mass. : American Antiquarian Society, 1965. 2 microopaques ; 23 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 2490).

Cited in:

Shaw & Shoemaker, 2490.

OCLC:

15445781