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William Bradford
Brithplace: Austerfield, Yorkshire, England
He was one of the person that sail in the "Mayflower" in september 1620. Bradford lived during the colonial period in which he writes about his time.
• Of Plymouth Plantation : One of Bradford's works about the puritans. -
Johnathan Edwards
Edward was born in East Windsor, Connecticut, to Timothy Edwards, pastor of East Windsor, and Esther Edwards.
As a youth, Edwards was unable to accept the Calvinist sovereignty of God.
Jonathan lives during the puritan times where people writings are base on their beliefs , at that time is base on God's words. His writing style is different from Bradford would writes historical section of Puritan life,
He changes the plain style of puritans writing Edwards chose a style expressing his concern -
Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God
"Sinner in the hand of an Angry God" is about a sermon used to warn people of the power of God and his ability to do horrible things to sinners. It is a reminder to be good to God because those who sin are standing just above hell, already sentenced to damnation. This is during the time of the puritans, their beliefs is that the bible is the sole source of god words, all humans are evil, and that people were predestined to go to either hell or heaven. This reflect on how the country was like. -
Washington Irving
Washington Irving was born in New York City on April 3, 1783.
Most famous for his story "Rip VAn Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
An emphasis on nature, the supernatural, and superstitions were all part of Irving's works. Poe's works would use the supernatural, the emphasis of nature, and exotic locations. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Born: May 25, 1803, Boston
American essayist, lecturer, and poet
The Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19 century was led by emerson. He believed in individualism, and the needs for peace among man and nature.
He was friend with Henry David Thoreau who was also a transcendentalist.
He have an optimistic view of the world. -
Nathaniel Hawthorne
He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts.
Hawthorne read about the puritans by William Bradford and other authors. Join the transcendentalist movement but then feels like its not his style of writing.
He sided with the Romantic movement in literature. His work are consider to the side of Dark Romanticism. -
Edgar Allan Poe
an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement.
The inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, was something he was widely acknowledge but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician.
Like Hawthorne Poe was the dark side of American. Romanticism. His works are of terrors story. He disliked the Transcendentalist.
His works were rejected at first. -
Henry David Thoreau
Born July 12, 1817, Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.
American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher, renowned for having lived the doctrines of Transcendentalism as recorded in his masterwork, Walden (1854).
Thoreau came in influence with Emerson and he is just like Emerson but focus more on nature. -
Frederick Douglass
Brithplace: Talbot County
After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement. His works were written after the civil explaining his life during the civil war.
Lived during the era of realism where authors write about what will happen compare to what should happen. This era contrast to Romantic period.
Frederick Douglass was the spokeman for his people and his voice was heard. -
Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819)
Brithplace; a farmhouse in West Hills
An American poet, essayist and journalist.
Whitman's collection of poems, Leaves of Grass, stands among the masterpieces of world literature.
Whitman was the first English-language free verse poet.
Whitman voice was neglected at first because poeple were use to the rule in writing poems.
Whitman and Dickinson develope the new American poetry. -
Rip Van Winkle
Washinton Irving uses characters in teh story "Rip Van WInkle" to represent different societies at the time when New York was a English colony. The story begins about five or six years before the American Revolution and ends twenty years later. -
Emily Dickinson
Brith place: Amherst . Was an American Poet.
Her most intense writing period was during her depressions state. She lived during the civil war.
Dickinson developed a unique style, characterized by compressed expression, the use of grammer (running on of thoughts from one line to the next without a break, and an exploration of the possibilities of language. Her use of grammer to were rejected at first but then with the help of familys and friends her poems became well-known. -
From Nature
"From Nature" is an essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson. He is making the point that much of our knowledge is gained by reliance upon recorded authorities, upon the written word; thus we get experience more often vicariously than directly. Emerson gives a different view of the world to broaden the mind. -
Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe is one of the American author from the dark side of Roanticism.His storys are like-horror stories which we still write and read a lot today. His story "Fall Of the house of Usher" was published in September 1839. It's about a woman being buried alive.
Poe storys is similar to Irving story "The Devil and Tom Walker" in ways such as settings, characters, plot and theme. -
Self Reliance
Self Reliance was published in the 1841 collcetions. Emerson begins his major work on individualism by asserting the importance of thinking for oneself rather than meekly accepting other people's ideas. As in almost all of his work, he promotes individual experience over the knowledge gained from books: "To believe that what is true in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius." Literature also educate the uneducated. -
The Masque of the Red Death
"The Masque of the Red Death", originally published as "The Mask of the Red Death", is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by hiding in his abbey -
Ambrose Bierce
Brithplace:
An American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. He was like Frederick Douglass, an american realist. Bierce also had a peculiar knack for establishing an athmosphere of horror through suggestive, realistic detail.
Mark Twain was one of his contemporary friends . -
Tell Tale heart
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It is told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of his sanity, while describing a murder he committed. -
The narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, An American Slave
Fredrick Douglass narrative take place from 1818 to 1841. He explains his conflict and struggles to free himself, mentally and physically, from slavery. The themes of the Narrrative are ignorance as a tool of slavery and knowledge as the path to freedom. -
The Cask Of Amontillado
"The Cask of Amontillado" has been almost universally referred to as Poe's most perfect short story; in fact, it has often been considered to be one of the world's most perfect short stories. Furthermore, it conforms to and illustrates perfectly many of Poe's literary theories about the nature of the short story: that is, it is short and can be read at one sitting, it is a mood piece with every sentence contributing to the total effect. -
The Scarlet Letter
The scarlet Letter take place during the purtian times and Hawthorne shows how purtian laws and religon were like back then . -
Walden, Or Life in the Wood
Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau wanted to experience what living really is so he set out to life in the woods. It was from the summer of 1845 to the summer of 1847.The theme of Walden is the importance of self reliance and the value of simplicity. -
Songs Of The Open Roads
This poem by Walt Whitman was one of the twenty new poems in the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass. Whitman explains that a road is something that everyone uses and forces people to interact with each other whether they are poor or rich. -
Of Plymouth Plantation
This was Willianm Bradford's most important work, an account of the activities of the puritians from 1621 to 1646. It's an important resource for American historians. It summarizes the life of the early settlers of Plymouth.
Bradford uses the "plain style" of writing in this works, straight and to the point. This was the writing the puritans uses than. -
The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn
The story take place before the civil war; roughly 1835–1845. The themes of the story are racism and slavery; intellectual and moral education; the hypocrisy of “civilized” society. -
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Ambrose Bierce wrote "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" in 1886 and it was published in the 1891 collections, " Tales Of Soliders and civilians." The story take place in northern Alabama during the American Civil War. -
Heart! We Will Forget Him!
Emily Dickison have had love affairs, which she expresses her emotions through her poems using different kind of grammers. -
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The story take place during the Great Depression. Differences in social status are explored largely through the overcomplicated social hierarchy of Maycomb (the town where the characters lived). -
I Hear America Singing
Written by american poet Walt Whitman. This poem shows Whitman attitude toward America. This poem expresses Whitman's love of America — its vitality, variety, and the massive achievement which is the outcome of the creative endeavor of all its people. It also illustrates Whitman's technique of using catalogs consisting of a list of people.
