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Literature in the Colonial Period (1607-1820) I. Cultural Background: Discovery of America and early settlers II. American Puritanism 1.Puritans – American Puritans – American Puritanism 2.Calvinism:Predestination,Original Sin, Total Depravity, Limited Atonement 3. Its influence upon American writings: a. (technique): symbolism b. (tone): optimism c. (language): simplicity d. (theme): redemption and salvation Literature in the Colonial Period (1607-1820) III. The Literary Trends in the Colonial Period 1. General features 2. Literary Forms A. histories: Captain John Smith’s A Description of New England William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia B. Personal account: Slave narratives, prisoner’s narratives, etc. C. Sermons: Jonathan Edwards’ Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God II. Literature in the Colonial Period (1607-1820) D. Poetry: Anne Bradstreet and her religious and secular poetry Edward Taylors religious poetry: Preparatory Meditations Philip Freneau’s patriotic and nature poetry: “The Indian Burial Ground” II. Literature in the Colonial Period Three Representative Figures (in prose) Jonathan Edwards and his sermon: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Benjamin Franklin and The Autobiography (1791,1818) and Poor Richard’s Almanac Thomas Paine and his political essays: Common Sense and American Crisis John de Crevecoeur and his Letters from an American Farmer III. American Romantic Period (1820-1865) I. Romantic Fathers: Washington Irving and J. F. Cooper II. New England Transcendentalists (1836-1855): Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau III. The First Literary Renaissance 1. Two novelists: Hawthorne and Melville 2. A Controversial man of letters: E. A. Poe 3. The Epitomes of American Poetry: Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson III. American Romantic Period (1820-1865) 4. O