I. Colonial and Pre-Revolutionary Period (1608 to 1776)

US LITERATURE TIMELINE

US Literature Periodization 1. Colonial Literature (1608-1775) 2. The Revolutionary Period (1775-1787) 3. Literature of a Young Nation (1788-1830)	4. The Era of Expansion (1831-1870) 5. The Age of Realism (1871-1913) 6. The World Wars and Depression (1914-1945) 7. Literature since 1945
Native American Literature: Navajo; Acoma; Ojibwa; Hopil Cheyenne [Mababozho; Maheo; Coot; Coyote] Words borrowed from Indian languages: canoe, tobacco, potato, moccasin, moose, persimmon, raccoon, tomahawk, totem	1. A Chippewa poem-song: A loon I thought it was But it was My love’s splashing oar.	2. A Modoc vision song: I The song I walk here.

I. Colonial and Pre-Revolutionary Period (1608 to 1776)

- Virginia: John Smith (1580--1631) "A True Relation of . . . Virginia . . . " (1608); "The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles" (1624) [Pocahontas

- New England: William Bradford "Of Plimoth Plantation"

Being thus passed the vast ocean, and a sea of troubles… they had now no friends to welcome them nor inns to entertain or refresh their weatherbeaten bodies; no houses or much less towns to repair to, to seek for succor… savage barbarians… were readier to fill their sides with arrows than otherwise. And for the reason it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country, know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms… all stand upon them with a weatherbeaten face, and the whole country, full of woods and thickets, represents a wild and savage hue.

Cotton and Increase Mathers'Magnalia Christi Americana' (Christ's Great Achievements in America, the Ecclesiastical History of New England from Its First Planting in the New Year 1620, unto the Year of our Lord 1698)

Jonathan Edwards “Freedom of Will”from 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God'.

God should let you go, you would immediately sink, and sinfully descend, and plunge into the bottomless gulf… The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked… he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else but to be cast into the bottomless gulf.

- Michael Wigglesworth "The Day of Doom" (1662)

- Bay Psalm Book (1595–1661))

Anne BradstreetThe Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America (1650) To My Dear and Loving Husband If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me ye woman if you can. I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold Or all the riches that the East doth hold. My love is such that rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense. Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray. Then While we live, in love let’s so persevere That when we live no more, we may live ever.

Edward Taylor'Upon What Base" Upon what base was fixed the lathe wherein He turned this globe and rigolled it so trim? Who blew the bellows of His furnace vast? Or held the mold wherein the world was cast? Who laid its cornerstone? On whose command? Where stand the pillars upon which it stands? Who laced and filleted the earth so fine With rivers like green ribbons smaragdine? Who made the seas its selvage and its locks Like a quilt ball within a silver box? Who spread its canopy? Or curtains spun? Who in this bowling alley bowled the sun?

- Afro-American writers

– Lucy Terry "Bar’s Fight, August 28, 1746,"

– Phillis Wheatley Poems on Various Subjects: Religious and Moral (1773)

Date: 2015-12-11; view: 1106

<== previous page	\|	next page ==>
English Literature Timeline	\|	IV. ERA OF EXPANSION AND transcendentalism (1831-1870)

doclecture.net - lectures - 2014-2024 year. Copyright infringement or personal data (0.007 sec.)