A History of American Literature
The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 27 The civilization that John Smith anticipated coming to the New World, and pushing asid ...
28 The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods settlers, those for whom life in America was not the tale of useful toil rewarded that ...
The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 29 they looked behind them,” all these “poor people” could see there “was the mighty ocea ...
30 The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods matter, the moralizing tendency and the preference for fact rather than fiction, “God’ ...
The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 31 Written as a series of questions, answers, and objections that reflect Winthrop’s lega ...
32 The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods Challenges to the Puritan oligarchy John Winthrop found good reason for his belief in ...
The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 33 “Merry-mount”), selling the “barbarous savages” guns. To stop what Bradford called Mor ...
34 The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods to England, Morton reveals, he was brought “bottles of strong liquor” and other comfor ...
The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 35 “I have not heard of the like, yet framed, since it pleased God to bring that mighty C ...
36 The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods the native and the colonist, the “false” and the “true.” Which is not at all to its di ...
The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 37 satire. It was commonly a means of making sense of things, connecting the particu- lar ...
38 The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods The work was a collaborative one, produced by twelve New England divines. And one of t ...
The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 39 That belief was not contested by the two finest poets of the colonial period, Anne Bra ...
40 The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods An edition of the poems of Bradstreet was published in Boston six years after her deat ...
The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 41 Farewell fair flower that for a space was lent, Then ta’en away into eternity. Blest b ...
42 The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods Gradually, the intimate tone of address is switched to God, who is asked to “break the ...
The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 43 Upon what Base was fixed the Lath, wherein He turn’d this Globe, and riggalld it so tr ...
44 The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods vocation, becomes here a measure of the strength of his faith. It is only faith, evi- ...
The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 45 is to identify the Native Americans as fit inhabitants of “the Wilderness:” these are ...
46 The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods by 1700 it was 250,000, it had more than doubled by 1730, and by 1775 it was to become ...
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