New English Canaan Book

	List of Illustrations	vii
	A Sampler of Remarks on Morton and Canaan	ix
	Contexts & Chronology	xvii
	Editor's Preface, Introduction, Acknowledgments	xxii
	Abbreviations; and Original Copies Collated	xxxix
	The 1637 Table of Contents (with Chapter-Subject Headings)	xl
	New English Canaan	1
	Dedication, Epistle to the Reader, Testimonial Poems	2
	"The Author's Prologue"	7
Book 1	Of the Natives, Their Manners and Customs	9
Book 2	The Natural Endowments of the Country	53
Book 3	What People Are Planted Three	103
	Reading the Revels: a Glossary	201
	Index to Canaan	207
Part 2	Thomas Morton---The Life & Renaissance of an Early American Poet
Chapter 1	Family, Sensibility, The Times	5
Chapter 2	Education	29
Chapter 3	At the Inns of Court	41
Chapter 4	Exit to America	63
	Antimasque: America's First Poetry in English	83
Chapter 5	New World, New Life	127
Chapter 6	Failure & Fortune	153
Chapter 7	Family Values	163
Chapter 8	Revel, Arrest & Return	191
	Masque: The Riddle of May Day	218
Chapter 9	Banned in Boston: Second Exile, Canaan, and Revenge	247
Chapter 10	Land of the New Creed	291
	Bibliographies
1	Works Cited/Abbreviations	317
2	1492-1637: Influences and Contemporaries	355
	Index to Thomas Morton	365
	Maps, Illustrations, Documents & Artifacts	375