CLEP American Literature - Beginnings-1830

Born near the port city of Genoa, Italy, embarked on a career at sea as a young man. The Spanish monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, supported him in his quest to locate a commercially viable route to Asia, and between 1492 and 1504 he sailed across the Atlantic four times.

Letter to Luis de Santangel Regarding the First Voyage (1493), which became the basis for the first printed description of America, and his Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella Regarding the Fourth Voyage (1503)

Born in Yorkshire, England, was one of the first "pilgrims" to sail across the Atlantic on the Mayflower and settle in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Of Plymouth Plantation (1630-50) is a long and painstaking account of the small settlement at Plymouth and the much larger colonization at Massachusetts Bay ten years later.

The most famous moment in Model of Christian Charity (1630) is his "city upon a hill" analogy,

Born in Groton, England, grew up on a farming estate that his father, a lawyer, had purchased from Henry VII. He attended Cambridge University for two years, where he first encountered Puritan thought.

married when she was only sixteen, but her father ensured that she received an education superior to those of her female peers. Both her husband and her father shared Puritan beliefs, and the two families sailed to New England with John Winthrop's fleet.

Wrote: The Author to Her Book, which evidently was written as the epigraph to the second edition of her collection of poems. The Flesh and the Spirit, A Dialogue Between Old England and New, andUpon the Burning of Our House.

0ften makes use of the old poetic strategy of the "debat," a poem with two voices presenting opposite sides in some ongoing controversy, political, moral, or spiritual. The strategy was popular from the Middle Ages onward through Milton.

was probably born in England and brought to Lancaster, part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, as a child. There she married a minister, and for twenty years they raised their children and went about their duties in the colony

Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of -____________(1682) is the most detailed eyewitness account of "King Philip's War,"

Interesting Narrative(1789) gives us a new perspective on life in the American colonies. Written within the context of the late colonial and federal history of America, this text provides a rare and stirring firsthand account of life in Africa, the internal African slave trade ( own father owned slaves), and conditions on the slave ships themselves.

Born near Hartford, Connecticut, to a minister and his wife, the daughter of the Reverend Solomon Stoddard, one of the most influential religious men in New England, was groomed to follow in his father's and grandfather's footsteps.

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God &A Divine and Supernatural Light

Born in Boston and one of fifteen children, was apprenticed to his brother, a printer, when he was twelve. Five years later, he abruptly left his brother's newspaper and went to Philadelphia, where he taught himself several languages and, by the time he was twenty-four, edited the Pennsylvania Gazette and published it in his own printing shop.