THE PURITAN PERIOD (1630-1720)
William Bradford Of Plymouth Plantation
1651Anne Bradstreet “The
Author to her Book 1650“Verses upon the Burning of our House
1666“To My Dear and Loving Husband
1678“The
Flesh and the Spirit 1678Edward Taylor “Huswifery” Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
1731David Cusick “The Iroquois Creation Story
1828?1856?18TH CENTURY (AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT)
Jonathan Edwards “Personal Narrative
1739“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
1741Benjamin Franklin Autobiography
1791TURN OF THE TH CENTURY
Washington Irving (1783-1859) Rip Van Winkle
1819“The
Legend of the Sleepy Hollow 1820“The Adventure of the German Student
1824TRANSCENDENTALISM (1815-1860)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Nature
1836*“The American Scholar 1837
*”Self-Reliance” 1841
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Walden (Economy, Where I Lived and What I Lived
For”, Solitude, Conclusion)
1854*”Civil Disobedience Resistance to Civil Government AMERICAN ROMANTICISM (DARK ROMANTICISM)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) The Fall of the House of Usher
1839“The Tell-Tale Heart
1843“The
Purloined Letter 1844“The Raven
1845“The Philosophy of Composition
1846AMERICAN ROMANCE (1850; 1851)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
The Scarlet Letter 1850Herman Melville (1819-1891) Moby-Dick (or The Whale)
1851