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Began With Legends, Myths and Poetry
Began With Legends, Myths and Poetry
BEGINNINGS
OF
AMERICAN
LITERATURE
began with legends, myths and poetry
AMERICAN INDIANS
Firstpeople to live in to what
is now US.
1600S- COLONIAL
PERIOD
Journals and reports of European explorers
Histories, Religious writings and Poetry
Writers:
Washington Irving
Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
William Cullen Bryant,
“Thanatopsis”, “To a Waterfowl”
1800S-UNIQUE AMERICAN STYLE
Topics focused on country’s problems (slavery)
Opechancanough
Fast Facts:
Opechancanough was one of the greatest Powhatan chiefs.