Part 1 :The literature of colonial America : Captain John Smith / William Bradford / John Winthrop / John Cotton / Roger Williams / Anne Bradstreet / Edward Taylor
Part 2: The literature of reason and revolution : Benjamin Franklin / Thomas Paine / Thomas Jefferson / Philip Freneau /
Part 3: The literature of romanticism : Washington Irving / James Fenimore Cooper / William Cullen Bryant / Edgar Allan Poe /Ralph Waldo Emerson / Henry David Thoreau / Nathaniel Hawthorne /Herman Melville / Henry Wadsworth /
Part 4: The literature of realism : Walt Whitman / Emily Dickinson / Harriet Beecher Stowe / Mark Twain / O. Henry-William Sidney Porter / Henry James / Jack London /
Part 5; Twentieth-century literature
Captain John Smith----1. the first American writer
2.publish eight in all
3. A map of Virginia
4.General History of Virginia
William Bradford-----1. a narrative poem---From my years
2.The History of Plymouth Plantation
John Winthrop---The History of New England
John Cotton}=== puritan: Puritans wanted to make pure their religious beliefs and practices . The puritan was a “ would-be-purifier.”
Roger Williams}=====
Anne Bradstreet----1. the Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America
2. most influent writer ( ababccc)
Edward Taylor---the best of the puritan poets
Benjamin Franklin---1. only one writer in colonial period whose works are read today
2.only good American author before the Revolutionary War
3. founded the University of Pennsylvania
4.study and map the Gulf Stream
5. applied the terms of positive and negative to electrical charges
6. musical instrument armonica
7. Poor Richard’s Almanack
8. The Way to Wealth
9.The Autobiography 1868 style: natural and simplicity / his shadow lies heavier than any other man’s on this young nation
Thomas Paine--- 1.great commoner of mankind
2. an ingenious worthy young man
3.Pennsylvania Magazine
4. 1772 first pamphlet-The case of the Officers of the Excise
5. 1776 Common sense 1776-1783 16 pamphlets The American Crisis 1791-1792 Rights of Man 1794-1795 The Age of Reason 1797 his last treatise-Agrarian Justice
Thomas Jefferson-1. the first American Secretary of state assist Franklin and Adams
2. The Declaration of Independence ( identified natural rights as life liberty and the pursuit of happiness
Philip freneau---1. father of American poetry / the poet of the revolution
2. double role---poet and political journalist
3. 1770 The Power of Fancy / 1776 The House of Night ( theme-death )
4. the poem of Philip written chiefly during the later war
nature lyrics ==The Wild Honey Suckle / The Indian Burying Ground
Washington Irving----the first great prose stylist of American romanticism / the only American writer of his generation who could chide the British in an atmosphere of good humor
2. 1809 A History of New York / 1819-1820 The Sketch Book / 1824 Tales of a Traveller ( in pursuit of an interest in German romanticism )
3.The Author’s Account of Himself
4. The Lengend of Sleepy Hollow( Tarry Town 一個偏僻山村的生活情景和人物性格。 刻畫了一個美國老Yankee 與莊稼漢的沖突)
character: Ichabod Grane Katrina Van Tassel (Crane 與 天鶴一詞同音同行帶有幽默之意