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The Colonial Period (1607-1800)
Great Works: History of Plimmoth Plantation * was a Separatist Pilgrim * Traveled on the Mayflower |
William Bradford
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The Colonial Period (1607-1800)
Poetry Great Works: The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America * was married to the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony * mother and homemaker * brother-in-law took peoms to a London publisher without her knowledge * America's first poet |
Anne Bradstreet
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The Colonial Period (1607-1800)
Poetry Great Works: Poetical Works * did not want poems to be published * not published until 1939 |
Edward Taylor
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The Colonial Period (1607-1800)
Great Works: Magnalia Christi Americana - a history of New England from it's first planting * was the son and grandson of preachers * entered Harvard at 12 * involved in Salem witchcraft trials |
Cottom Mather
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The Colonial Period (1607-1800)
Great Works: A Description of New England The General History of Virginia New England Summer Isles * an American adventurer |
John Smith
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The Colonial Period (1607-1800)
Great Works: Autobiography Poor Richard's Almanac * known for proverbs * A little neglect may breed great mischief" * Plough deep while sluggards sleep" * contemporary of Thomas Paine |
Benjamin Franklin
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The Colonial Period (1607-1800)
Political Great Works: Common Sense - encouraged a declaration of independence * led an unsettled life * switched jobs many times * married twice * moved to American because of Ben Franklin's encouragement |
Thomas Paine
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The Colonial Period (1607-1800)
Great Works: Declaration of Independence * third U.S. president * practiced law * member of the Continental Congress * almost entirely responsible for writing the Declaration of Independence |
Thomas Jefferson
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The Colonial Period (1607-1800)
Poetry Great Works: Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral reflected her Christian beliefs * America's first black female writer * born in Africa * purchased as a slave by a family who treated her like a daughter * educated with owner's son |
Philis Wheatley
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Romanticism/Transcendentalism (1800-1865)
Humor Great Works: Sleepy Hollow - Brom Bones, Ichabod Crane, Katrina Van Tassel-shattered pumpkin Rip Van Winkle The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon * founder of American Literature * America's first humorist writer * The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon was a collection of retellings of European folk tales including Rip Van Winkle and Sleepy Hollow |
Washington Irving
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Romanticism/Transcendentalism (1800-1865)
Great Works: Leather-Stocking Tales - life of the early American frontier - Natty Bumppo - also known as Hawkeye, Pathfinder, and "the trapper" Precaution The Spy * read a novel given to him by his wife and asserted that he could write something better himself |
James Fenimore Copper
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Romanticism/Transcendentalism (1800-1865)
Poetry Great Works: Poems To a Water Fowl * poems about nature * believed in God as a divine being distinct from His creation * nature as th visible evidence of God's beauty and power |
William Culler Braynt
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Romanticism/Transcendentalism (1800-1865)
Poetry Great Works: Ballads and Other Poems The Courtship of Miles Standish The Song of Hiawatha * known for gentleness, sweetness, and purity * two wives died |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Romanticism/Transcendentalism (1800-1865)
Novels Great Works: Wacousta - a novel based on Canadian history Backwoods of Canada Roughing It in the Bush |
John Richardson
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Romanticism/Transcendentalism (1800-1865)
Essays Great Works: Nature - Transcendentalism's main philosophy of "the mysitical unity of nature" Self-Reliance The American Scholar * was a Unitarian minister * met intellectuals, whose ideas (Hindu, Buddhist, Persian) influenced his development of Transcendentalism |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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