Edward Taylor
The Age of Reason and Enlightenment
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Paine
John de Crevecoeur
John Woolman
Philip Freneau
Philis Wheatley
Charles Brockden Brown
A Key into the Language of America
6.Cotton Mather(1663-1728)
An inexhaustible writer, producing more than 500 books on an incredible variety of subjects
The Rising Glory of America
The British Prison Ship(1871)
To the Memory of the Brave Americans(1871)
On the Memorable Victory of John Paul Jones
The Indian Burying Ground
Letters from an American Farmer(1775) (12 letters)
4.John Woolman(1663-1728)
Journal
“Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes”
“A Plea for the Poor”
Forerunner of the American transcendentalism
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God(best and most representative sermon)
The Freedom of the Will(1754)(masterpiece)
5.Philip Freneau(1752-1832)
Poet of the American Revolution(18thcentury)
The first American-born poet; Father of American poetry
Established the National Gazette in Philadelphia in 1791 with Thomas Jefferson’s support
The most famous poet in the colonial period
A meditative poet (baroque); A puritan poet
Preparatory Meditations
Huswifery
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
The Poems of Edward Taylor (1960)
The Age of Romanticism
Washington Irving
James Fenimore Cooper
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
Edgar Allan Poe
Walt Whitman
The creator of sea novels and the American frontier novels
The Spy
The Pilot
Leatherstocking Tales(Natty Bumpoo)
“The Pioneers”(1823)
“The Last of the Mohicans”(1826)
The Great Doctrine of Original Sin Defended(1758)
The Nature of True Virtue(1765)
Images or Shadows of Divine Things
8.Ann Bradstreet(1612-1672)
The first American woman poet
The Alhambra(1832)
Life of Goldsmith
Life of Washington
2.James Fenimore Cooper(1789 - 1851)
The first important American novist.
A master of adventurous narrative and the creator of an American hero-myth
“Rip Van Winkle”
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
The History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus(1828)
A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada(1829)
The Magnalia Christi America
(The Ecclesiastical History of New England)
7.Jonathan Edwards(1703-1758)
America’s first systematicphilosopher
Contributed to “Great Awakening”(1730s-1740s)and “Transcendentalism”
American Literature: Writers & Works
The Colonial Period
John Smith
William Bradford
John Winthrop
John Cotton
Roger Williams
Cotton Mather
Jonathan Edwards
Anne Bradstreet
The Dying Indian: Tomo Chequi
The Wild Honeysuckle
6.Philis Wheatley(1754-1784)
The firstblackwoman poet in American literature
On Messrs Hussey and Coffin(1770)
History of Plymouth Plantation(1630,1856)
3.John Winthrop(1588-1657)
The first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
The writer who best expressed the Puritan faith in the colonial period
“the American Goldsmith”
The History of New Yorkfrom the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty(1809)
The Sketch Bookof Geoffrey Crayon, Gent(1819 - 1820)
The History of New England(two volumes, 1825, 1826; 1630 ---1649 indiary)
Model of Christian Charity（sermon）
4.John Cotton(1584-1652)
The most eminent and admired minister in the first generation of New England Puritans.
O. Henry
Upton Sinclair
The Colonial Period
1.John Smith(1580-1631)
The first American writer writing in English
The General History of Virginia(1624)(Pocahontas)
A Description of New England(1614)
A Map of Virginia; With a Description of the Country(1612)
2.William Bradford(1590-1657)
Father of American history
The first governor of the Plymouth Plantation（1620）
The Age of Reason and Revolution
1.Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790)
One of the Founding Fathers of the USA
Poor Richard’s Almanac(1732-1758)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin/Memoirs
2.Thomas Paine(1737-1809)
Common Sense(January 10, 1776)
TheAmerican Crisis(December, 1776)
The Rights of Man
The Age of Reason
Agrarian Justice
3.John de Crevecoeur(1735-1813)
Father of American literature
Father of American short story
The first Americanwriterof imaginative literature to gain international fame