American Literature 1 American Literature: Writers & Works The Colonial Period John Smith William Bradford John Winthrop John Cotton Roger Williams Cotton Mather Jonathan Edwards Anne Bradstreet Edward Taylor The Age of Reason and Enlightenment Benjamin Franklin Thomas Paine John de Crevecoeur John Woolman Philip Freneau Philis Wheatley Charles Brockden Brown The Age of Romanticism Washington Irving James Fenimore Cooper Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Nathaniel Hawthorne Herman Melville Edgar Allan Poe Walt Whitman Emily Dickinson The Age of Realism William Dean Howells Henry James Mark Twain Stephen Crane Benjamin Frank Norris Theodore Dreiser Edwin Arlington Robinson Jack London O. Henry Upton Sinclair The Colonial Period 1. John Smith (1580-1631) The first American writer writing in English The General History of Virginia (1624) (Pocahontas) A Description of New England (1614) A Map of Virginia; With a Description of the Country (1612) 2. William Bradford (1590-1657) Father of American history The first governor of the Plymouth Plantation （1620） History of Plymouth Plantation (1630,1856) 3. John Winthrop (1588-1657) The first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony The writer who best expressed the Puritan faith in the colonial period The History of New England (two volumes, 1825, 1826; 1630 --- 1649 in diary) Model of Christian Charity （sermon） American Literature 2 4. John Cotton (1584-1652) The most eminent and admired minister in the first generation of New England Puritans. 5. Roger Williams (1603-1683) Translated the Bible into the Indian tongue A puritan dissenter, a staunch fighter for freedom and democracy The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for Cause of Conscience (1644) A Key into th...
