Literary Period Timeline

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    Anne Bradstreet

    Was born March 20, 1612, Northampton, United Kingdom and died on September 16, 1672, North Andover, MA. She wrote the book The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America
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    Robert Beverley

    He was born Middlesex County, VA in 1673 and died on April 21 1722. He wrote the book The history and present state of Virginia and The History of Virginia: In Four Parts Robert
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    Thomas Plaine

    He was a author during the revolutionary era. He was also a political activist, philosopher, and political theorist.
  • Work Publications in Revolutionary

    George Washington wrote the book called George Washington's Farewell Address. James Madison wrote the book federalist papers. He also wrote The mind of the founder.
  • Revolutionary

    During the Revolutionary Era in american history enlightenment thinkers and individualists were common. The era started in 1775.
  • Gothic

    Gothic is another word for horror books. It started in the late 1700s and went o from there. Some of the characteristics of Gothic is haunted houses, scary castles, and supernatural beings and monsters.
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    Percy Bysshe Shelley

    He was one of the major romantic poets. He died because he drowned. He wrote the book Ozymandias.
  • Work Publications in Romanticism

    William Wordsworth wrote the book I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. Lord Byron wrote the book She Walks in Beauty. Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote the book Kubla Khan.
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    Romanticism

    its an artistic, intellectual and literary movement that originated in Europe. The characteristics focuses on the writers emotions and inner world.
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson

    He was a american essayist, poet, philosopher, and lecturer that led transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
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    Transcendentalism

    It started in between these dates. It arose a reaction, to protest against the general state of intellectualism and spirituality at the time. Some of the characteristics are nature, Unitarian Church, and Individualism.
  • Colonial Period

    Colonial Period
    The colonial period was mostly made up of by puritan beliefs and the literature of this period is usually historical, religious, or didactic.
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    Transcendentalism Work Publications

    Henry David Thoreau wrote the book Civil Disobedience. Walt Whitman wrote the book Song of Myself. Theodore Parker wrote the book Ten Sermons of Religion.