periods in american literature

Phillis Wheatley

The colonial period

Cotton Mather

The colonial period

William Bradford

The colonial period

Anne Bradstreet

The colonial period

John winthrop

The colonial period

Thomas Jefferson

The revolutionary age

Thomas Paine

The revolutionary age

James madison

The revolutionary age

Alexander Hamilton

The revolutionary age

Joel barrow

The revolutionary age (Poet)

Philip preneau

The revolutionary age (Poet)

Revall Tyler

The early national period (“the contrast” comedy)

William hill

The early national period (“The power of sympathy” first American novel)

Washington Irving

The early national period

James fenimore cooper

The early national period

Charles Brockden brown

The early national period

Edgar Allen Poe

The early national period

William Cullen Bryant

The early national period

Walt Whitman

The American renaissance

Ralph Waldo emerson

The American renaissance

Henry David Thoreau

The American renaissance

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The American renaissance

Edgar Allen Poe (romance)

The American renaissance

Herman Melville

The American renaissance

Henry wadsworth Longfellow

The American renaissance (Poetry)

William dean howells

The realistic period

Henry james

The realistic period

Mark Twain

The realistic period

Sarah Oren Jewett

The realistic period

Kate Chopin

The realistic period

Bret Harte

The realistic period

Mary Wilkins freeman

The realistic period

George w. Cable

The realistic period

Walt Whitman

The realistic period (Poetry)

Emily Dickinson

The realistic period (Poetry)

Frank Norris

The naturalist period

Theodore Dreiser

The naturalist period

Jack condon

The naturalist period

Edith Wharton

The naturalist period

E.e. Cummings

The modern period

Robert frost

The modern period

Ezra pound

The modern period

William Carlos William s

The modern period

Marianne Moore

The modern period

Langston Hughes

The modern period

Carl Sandburg

The modern period

T.s. Elliot

The modern period

Wallace Steven’s

The modern period

Edna st. Vincent Millay

The modern period

Willa Cather

The modern period

John dos Passos

The modern period

Edith Wharton

The modern period

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The modern period

John Steinbeck

The modern period

Ernest Hemingway

The modern period

William Faulkner

The modern period

Gertrude stein

The modern period

Sinclair Lewis

The modern period

Thomas Wolfe

The modern period

Sherwood Anderson

The modern period

Eugene O’niell

The modern period (drama)

Jack Kerouac

The Beat Generation (Anti-traditional lit)

Allen Ginsberg

The Beat Generation (Anti-traditional lit)

William s. Boroughs

The Beat Generation (Censorship challenges)

Henry miller

The Beat Generation (Censorship challenges)

Kurt Vonnegut

The contemporary period

Amy tan

The contemporary period

John Updike

The contemporary period

Eudora Welty

The contemporary period

James Baldwin

The contemporary period

Sylvia Plath

The contemporary period

Arthur miller

The contemporary period

Toni Morrison

The contemporary period

Ralph Ellison

The contemporary period

Joan didion

The contemporary period

Thomas Pynchon

The contemporary period

Elizabeth bishop

The contemporary period

Tennessee Williams

The contemporary period

Philip Roth

The contemporary period

Sandra Cisneros

The contemporary period

Richard wright

The contemporary period

Tony kushner

The contemporary period

Adrienne rich

The contemporary period

Bernard Malamud

The contemporary period

Saul bellow

The contemporary period

Joyce carol oates

The contemporary period

Thornton wilder

The contemporary period

Alice walker

The contemporary period

Edward Albee

The contemporary period

Norman mailer

The contemporary period

John Barth

The contemporary period

Maya angelou

The contemporary period

Robert penn warren

The contemporary period