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http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/NBurnett/news.cfm?subpage=1005048 This was the begining of American Literature. The people who would be known as the first Americans were mostly comprised of British Colonist who immigrated to America for religious or economical reasons.
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One of several key writers is Anne bradstreet she wrote a poem called The Author To Her Book http://www.annebradstreet.com/the_author_to_her_book.htm
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Many of the most distinguished leaders of the American revolution--Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, Paine--were powerfully influenced by English and--to a lesser extent--French Enlightenment thought. The God who underwrites the concept of equality in the Declaration of Independence is the same deist God Rousseau worshipped, not that venerated in the traditional churches which still supported and defended monarchies all over Europe. Jefferson and Franklin both spent time in France--a natural ally
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Common Sense
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This was the beginning of an open society where individuals were free to pursue individual happiness and liberty. Politically and socially, the imperial concepts of the medieval world were abandoned. The Age of Reason included the shorter time period described as the Age of Enlightenment; during this time great changes occurred in scientific thought and exploration. New ideas filled the horizon and man was eager to explore these ideas, freely.
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Emily Dickinson wrote a series of poem by sections. she wrote the first section in 1824 and titled it Epigram
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http://transcendentalism.tamu.edu/authors/emerson/
http://www.online-literature.com/emerson/
Ralph was an author during the trascendentalism movement he wrote a poem called Threnody
Emerson believed in individualism, non-conformity, and the need for harmony between man and nature. He was a proponent of abolition, and spoke out about the cruel treatment of Native Americans. -
Harriet wrote the Book Uncle Tom's Cabin that gave insight on the way she felt about racial inequalities. This also allowed her to write full time.
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American Civil war
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Twain is known for many famous writes one he wrote was called "the Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
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London wrote a short story called " The Call of the Wild"
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In 1917, Cummings published an early selection of poems in the anthology Eight Harvard Poets.
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The same year, Cummings left the United States for France as a volunteer ambulance driver in World War I. Five months after his assignment, however, he and a friend were interned in a prison camp by the French authorities on suspicion of espionage (an experience recounted in his novel, The Enormous Room) for his outspoken anti-war convictions.
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After the United States entered the First World War, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army. Serving at the front, he was wounded, was decorated by the Italian Government, and spent considerable time in hospitals.
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http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1954/hemingway-bio.html
During the twenties, Hemingway became a member of the group of expatriate Americans in Paris, which he described in his first important work, The Sun Also Rises -
Langston Hughes wrote his first novel called "Not Without Laughter" http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/83
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J.D. Salinger is known for his work titled "Catcher In the Rye"
