Colonial American Literature:
John Winthrop (1588-1649)
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
Anne Bradstreet “Before the Birth of One of Her Children” (1678)
Anne Bradstreet “Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666”
Anne Bradstreet “In Honor of That High and Mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth of Happy Memory” (1650)
Mary Rowlandson (1636-1711)
Cotton Mather (1663-1728)
American Literature 1700-1820:
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
John Woolman (1720-1772)
Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
Phillis Wheatley “On Being Brought from Africa to America” (1773)
Phillis Wheatley “To the University of Cambridge, in New England” (1773)
Phillis Wheatley “On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770” (1770, 1773)
American Literature 1820-1865:
Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
Harriet Jacob (1813-1897)
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Excerpts from Walden, Ch. 2 Where I Lived, and What I Lived For