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Smith was an English soldier, explorer, and author.
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Considered the start of American Literature, writing focused and revolved mainly around religion and describing the new world. Different genres and writing styles included sermons, diaries, personal narratives, and slave narratives. Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Jonathan Edwards, and John Smith were the major authors during this period.
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Written after Smith's expierences in Jamestown, the text described what colonial life was really like in Virgina.
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Born in Northampton, England
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The book included the famed Pocahontas story, that is said to be distorted due to the time lapse between when it occured and when the book was written.
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Born in Sketchley, Leicestershire, England.
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Written in 1641, the poem was not published until nine years later. Bradstreet was the first published American poet.
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The precise location of her grave is uncertain but many historians believe her body is in the Old Burying Ground at Academy Road in North Andover.
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Poor Richard's Almanac was written by Ben Franklin which adopted him the pseudonym "Richard Saunders".
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Edwards view on God was that He was distant and punitive towards mankind; who he considered basically evil.
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Abigail was the wife of John Adams and campaigned for womens rights through letters.
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Edwards is widely acknowledged as America's most important philosophical theologian. He played a critical role in starting the First Great Awakening. Edwards died of small pox inoculation.
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The Declaration of Indepence stated the sucession of Colonial America from the British. It was written by Thomas Jefferson.
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The American Crisis was a piece of propaganda that was very influential on convincing the public to revolt against Britain.
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During the Romanticism Era, writers generally believed imagination and emotion are more important than former rules used in literature. Romantic literature tends to emphasize a love of nature, a respect for primitivism, and a valuing of the common, "natural" man.
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Written by Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow scared children for generations.
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Paine was mainly a pamphleteer throughout his life. His method of producing propaganda is still an influential model today.
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Thomas Jefferson was considered by many the finest writer of his era.
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The Scarlet Letter portrays ideas reflected often in Hawthorne's work such as sin and guilt.
