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Part I. The Literature of Colonial America 1.
The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was
American Puritanism
11.
Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety, these were the Puritan values that dominated much of the early American writing.
Part II. The Literature of Reason and Revolution 3.
Benjamin Franklin also edited the first colonial magazine, which he called the General Magazine.
4.
Benjamin Franklin's best writing is found in his masterpiece Autobiography
9.
The most outstanding poet in America of the 18th century was Philip Freneau
10.
Philip Freneau's famous poem The British Prison Ship was written about his imprisoned experience.
11.
Philip Freneau was considered as the " poet of the American Revolution. "
12.
Philip Freneau has been called the "Father of American Poetry." 14.
In American literature, the eighteenth century was an Age of Reason and Revolution.
Part III. The Literature of Romanticism
1.
In the early nineteenth century, Washington Irving wrote The Sketch Book which became the first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic. 2.
In 1828, Noah Webster published his An American Dictionary of the English Language. 3.
In 1755, Samuel Johnson published his remarkable dictionary named Dictionary of the English Language. 4.
The Civil War of 1861 — 1865 ended in the defeat of the Southerners and the abolition of Slavery
5.
The American Transcendentalists formed a club called the Transcendental Club . 6.
The Transcendental Club often met at Ralph Waldo Emerson 's Concord home. 7.
Washington Irving was regarded as the first great prose stylist of American romanticism. 8.
At nineteen, Washington Irving published in his brother's newspaper, his "Jonathan Old style" satires of New York life. 9.
In Washington Irving's work
The Sketch Book
appeared the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature. 10.
In Paris, Washington Irving met John Howard Payne, the American dramatist and actor, with whom Irving wrote his brilliant social comedy Charles the Second , or The Merry Monarch. 11.
The short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is taken from Washington Irving's work named The Sketch Book . 12.
Washington Irving was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War. 13.
Washington Irving' s first book appeared in 1809. It was entitled The History of New York . 14.
Washington Irving also wrote two biographies, one is The Life of Oliver Gold¬
smith, and the other is
Life of Washington . 15.
The first important American novelist was James Fenimore Cooper
16.
James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Spy was a rousing tale about espionage against the British during the Revolutionary War. 17.
The best of James Fenimore Cooper's sea romances was The Pilot . The hero of the novel represents John Paul Jones, the great naval fighter of the Revolutionary War.
18.
The central figure in the Leather stocking Tales is Natty Bumppo , who goes by the various names of Leather stocking, |
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