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American Literature began with the legends, myths, and Poetry of the Native Americans.
Native Americans - The first people to live in
the U.S.
1600 : The colonies of Virginia and New England produced most important writing consisting of Journals and Reports of European Explorers.
Captain John Smith
- Admiral of New England, was an English soldier, explorer, and author.
Toward the middle of the 1800s, other writers focused on the country's problems, such as slavery, others, on the beauty of nature.
Sentimental Novels and Romance
~ Two main forms of friction that practiced by the americans.
James Fenimore Cooper
~The Last of the Mohicans and the Deerslayer.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
~Uncle Tom's Cabin
In early years of the American Independence, American literature gradually separated from the shadows of Europe's literary forms and styles.
Washington Irving
~ the most successful writer of the period.
William Cullen Bryant
~"Thanatopsis", "To a Waterfowl"
is his famous poems
After its Publications, histories, religious writings and poetry started to flourish, a great number of people learned to read. New Literary taste emerged. Politics and science was included in the interest of literature.
Essay, satire, and the novel became important literary forms.
Thomas Paine
~American Crisis, encouraged the rebels to persist during the darkest days of American Revolution.
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