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I. Colonial and Pre-Revolutionary Period (1608 to 1776)US LITERATURE TIMELINE
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))
- 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: 1274
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