American Lit Midterm

Anne Bradstreet

1612-1672

Colonial era, she was a puritan

“Before the Birth of One of Her Children”

“The Author to Her Book”

“To my Dear and Loving Husband”

“The Prologue”

John Smith

1580-1631

Exploration and colonial era, he was explorer hired by Virginia Co

“Powhatan’s Discourse”

“The General History of Virginia”

Bradford

1590-1657

Colonial era, pilgrim, separatist, gov of Plymouth Plantation

“First Thanksgiving”

“Of Plymouth Plantation”

Tommy Orange

1982-present

“Prologue: Indian Head”

Benjamin Franklin

1706-1790

Enlightenment era, colonial life, founding father, inventor, writer

“Franklin’s Autobiography”

“Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America” 

De Crevecoeur

1735-1813

Enlightenment era, loved American colonies and the new American identity which was forming

“Letters from an American Farmer”

Philis Wheatley

1753-1784

Enlightenment era, slave girl who learned to read and write and became famous poet

“On being Brought from Africa to America”
“To the University of Cambridge”

Thomas Jefferson

1743-1826

Enlightenment era, drafted Dec. of Ind., founding father, 3rd president

“The Declaration of Independence”

“Preamble to the Constitution”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1803-1882

Transcendentalism era, saw connection of nature and spirituality, friend of Thoreau

“Nature”

“Self-Reliance”

Henry David Thoreau

1817-1862

Transcendentalist, but inspire by Romanticism, friends of Emerson, Walden Pond experiment

“Walden”

William Cullen Bryant

1794-1878

Romanticist, poet, shy and not self promoting

“To a Waterfowl”