Dates of publications

THE PURITAN PERIOD (1630-1720)
William Bradford Of Plymouth Plantation 1651
Anne 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 1678
Edward Taylor “Huswifery” Upon a Spider Catching a Fly 1731
David Cusick “The Iroquois Creation Story 1828?1856?
18TH CENTURY (AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT)
Jonathan Edwards “Personal Narrative 1739
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God 1741
Benjamin Franklin Autobiography 1791
TURN 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 1824
TRANSCENDENTALISM (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 1846
AMERICAN ROMANCE (1850; 1851)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) The Scarlet Letter 1850
Herman Melville (1819-1891) Moby-Dick (or The Whale) 1851