ANTOLOGA DE LITERATURA AMERICANA

Por

Daysi Carolina Romero Marrufo

Trabajo Correspondiente a
Literatura Americana

Licenciatura en Lenguas Cuarto semestre

Divisin de estudios de licenciatura

Universidad del Valle de Guadiana

30 de marzo de 2017

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 INTRODUCTION

The origin of The American Literature is initially influenced for the European
culture, when they (Europeans) started to discover and conquer the new world
that was North America. This fact was the reason what did that many American
places did not have a literature autonomy. After preserving for a long time the
European dyes, in the century XVIII, the writers tired of that, began to have his
own features, values, feelings, and dreams that reflected to a new American
nation. The first nuances were about the religion, with a little creativity,
innocence, and sin. The closed, strict, and critical society of that time impeded
that the writers write about something else, but with the passage of the time the
same society could open his mind toward a new literature.

Will be displayed written from Edgar Allan Poe to Benjamin Franklin.

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 ANNE BRADSTREET
1612 - 1672

Anne Bradstreet was born Anne Dudley in 1612 in Northamptonshire, England.

She married Simon Bradstreet, a graduate of Cambridge University, at the age of
16. Two years later, Bradstreet, along with her husband and parents, immigrated
to America with the Winthrop Puritan group, and the family settled in Ipswich,
Massachusetts. There Bradstreet and her husband raised eight children, and she
became one of the first poets to write English verse in the American colonies. It
was during this time that Bradstreet penned many of the poems that would be
taken to England by her brother-in-law, purportedly without her knowledge, and
published in 1650 under the title The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up in America.

Tenth Muse was the only collection of Bradstreets poetry to appear during her
lifetime. In 1644, the family moved to Andover, Massachusetts, where Bradstreet
lived until her death in 1672. In 1678, the first American edition of Tenth
Muse was published posthumously and expanded as Several Poems Compiled
with Great Wit and Learning. Bradstreets most highly regarded work, a sequence
of religious poems entitled Contemplations, was not published until the middle of
the nineteenth century.

Bradstreets poetics belong to the Elizabethan literary tradition that

includes Edmund Spenser and Sir Philip Sidney; she was also strongly
influenced by the sixteenth century French poet Guillaume du Bartas. Her early
work, which is imitative and conventional in both form and content, is largely
unremarkable, and her work was long considered primarily of historical interest.
She has, however, won critical acceptance in the twentieth century for her later
poetry, which is less derivative and often deeply personal. In 1956 the poet John
Berryman paid tribute to her in Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, a long poem that
incorporates many phrases from her writings.

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 MY OPINION:

All poems that she wrote are amazing. Anne Bradstreet was ahead
for her time. This poem in specific Verses upon the Burning of our
House, July 18th, 1666, I caught my attention a lot, and I dont know
why. I like the part when she say The world no longer let me love;
My hope and Treasure lies
above.

I like because she has a lost, and she knows captures her feelings,
also she uses the indicated words for that situation.

She was spectacular and in this time she still is.

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 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
1706 1790

Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on January 17, 1706. While he is best
known for his scientific and political endeavors, he was also an accomplished
writer and poet, beginning with several articles he published in the New England
Courant under the pseudonym Silence Dogood. He created the Philadelphia
Gazette in 1730 as a platform for his writing, and in 1732, he began
publishing Poor Richards Almanac, an annual pamphlet offering advice,
information, and the occasional poem. He went on to write several books and
pamphlets, including Experiments and Observations on Electricity (Philadelphia,
1751). He was a pioneering scientist, an accomplished inventor, and a pivotal
figure in securing American independence. He died on April 17, 1790, in
Philadelphia.

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 MY OPINION:

The Autobiography is an inspiration text. Benjamin Franklin had the

things in his head so that his words, what he said and did, was
marked, and not just in the persons of that time, but in the history of
America.

His intentions toward America were very remarkable. And although

his thought was standing, his heart was higher that himself.

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 COTTON MATHER
16631728

Cotton Mather was on born February 12, 1663 in Boston, Massachusetts Bay
Colony. The son of Increase Mather, he was ordained a Congregational minister.
He helped work to ouster the British governor of Massachusetts, Edmund
Andros. Though his writings on witchcraft fed the hysteria that resulted in the
Salem witch trials, he disapproved of aspects of the trials. He died 1728.

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 MY OPINION:

Well, really, we dont know if the written of Cotton Mather about the
Salems witch was true. Story can be mysterious, and sometimes
terrifying, but like any story about fiction can be the imagination of a
person that at that moment dont knows nothing.

Many times we did somethings for our benefit. Benefit through the lie.
We are persons, and no matter if you are good or bad, were persons,
and that fact is the one that we must respect.

Anyway, the story Salem witch trials is good, is well written, and in
my point of view, catches you from the start.

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 DEKANAWIDAH
1390-1525

The Iroquois League of Five Nations and their Great Law of Peace represent
remarkable developments in mankind's march toward peace. The League and
the Law had a profound impact on the confederation of the American colonies
and the United States Constitution.

The main figures in this painting are Atotarho (splayed over the rock),
Deganawidah (hand on Atotarho's chest), and Hiawatha (combing the snakes
from Atotarho's hair). The painting is an allegory of the climax of the Iroquois
epic of the Great Law of Peace.

In this climactic scene, Deganawidah and Hiawatha convert the evil Atotarho to
accept the Great Law of Peace. Deganawidah laid his hands on Atotarhos body
and straightened the seven crooked places as Hiawatha combed the snakes
from the once wicked chiefs hair.

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 MY OPINION:

The values that the tribes had, or may be have, are very awesome.
How that is someone like they, had that way of seeing the things, the
life.

When I read the Iroquois Constitution, I look at vision and I can say
that love and respect. In the same time I can say that also our
Contitution have a good values, but the people not take care of follow
it.

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 EDGAR ALLAN POE
1809-1849

American writer, poet and critic Edgar Allan Poe is famous for his tales and
poems of horror and mystery, including "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The
Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Raven."
Born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts, writer, poet, critic, and
editor Edgar Allan Poe's tales of mystery and horror gave birth to the modern
detective story and many of his works, including The Tell-Tale Heart and The
Fall of the House of Usher, became literary classics. "The Raven," which he
published in 1845, is considered among the best-known poems in American
literature.

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 MY OPINION:

Edgar Allan Poe is really, really good. I liked his work. Each story
about his bibliography is very interesting, it catch you. I believe that
Poe wrote like he was, like his personality, like his clothing. The
through that we have, is expresses itself. Obviously Poe expresses it
in his writes. That makes me think in that Poe was a mind incredible
in that type of writing.

Poe makes that we imagine the fear.

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 JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
17891851

James Fenimore Cooper was a 19th-century American novelist, best known for
his Leatherstocking Tales, which included The Last of the Mohicans.

James Fenimore Cooper was born on September 15, 1789 in Burlington, New
Jersey. He began his writing career after a wager with his wife and published his
first book, Precaution, anonymously in 1820. His later series The
Leatherstocking Tales (which includes The Last of the Mohicans) introduced the
character Natty Bumppo. The books were hugely popular and have become
American classics. Cooper died in 1851.

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 MY OPINION:

I like this man, his way of written is good, but the drama of the stories
it can be boring, because the majority of the stories have the same
color of The ultimate Mohican.

For someone that it liked this story or the movie of this story, I think
that it will like his writes.

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 JOHN SMITH
Explorer (c. 15801631)

John Smith was a British soldier who was a founder of the American colony of
Jamestown in the early 1600s.

Born in 1579 or 1580 in Lincolnshire, England, John Smith eventually made his
way to America to help govern the British colony of Jamestown. After allegedly
being saved from death by Pocahontas, he established trading agreements with
native tribes. With his governing tactics called into question, he returned to
England in 1609 and became a staunch advocate of colonization via his
published works.

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 JONATHAN EDWARDS
Theologian, Philosopher, Journalist, Educator, Scholar (17031758)

The sermons and writings of Jonathan Edwards helped to shape the course of
Protestant theology before, during, and after The Great Awakening of 1740-1742.

Born October 5, 1703, Jonathan Edwards studied divinity at Yale College before
taking the pulpit in Northampton, Massachusetts. His sermons and writings
embraced the idea of free will, along with a firm confidence in God's
righteousness. During the fiery Great Awakening, Edwards became a lighting rod
for a movement that became a widespread religious revival.

Edwards became known widely for his fiery sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an
Angry God," which implored parishioners to embrace the teachings of Jesus
Christ before they were banished to hell as nonbelievers.

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 MY OPINION:

Jonathan Edwards knew how to unite to the America with the Bible.
He has many sermons, the majority is about the Bible, about of God,
about the sin, about everything about the religion, from someones
point of view that believe firmly in God and His word.

And, I believe that is not bad. Usually when someone joins the things
of the Bible (clearly well studied and not because he understand as
he wants) with your life, have a certain peace, and I think that it is
good.

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 MICHEL-GUILLAUME-SAINT-JEAN DE CRVECOEUR
Journalist, Diplomat (17351813)

Michel-Guillaume-Saint-Jean de Crvecoeur was a French writer and naturalist

who traveled to America in the 1700s and wrote Letters from an American
Farmer.

J. Hector St. John de Crvecoeur was born on January 31, 1735 in Caen,
France. He traveled to the New World in 1755 as an officer and mapmaker and
became a farmer, then served as French consul for many years. He returned to
Europe in 1790. His fame rests on his essays, Letters from an American Farmer.
In his time he was the most widely read commentator on America. He died in
1813.

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 MY OPINION:

Cultivating an aura of mystery, Crvecoeur apparently enjoyed

provoking speculation. Sometimes like a spy, changing languages and
sides, making detailed notes and maps, writing far and wide,
sometimes hiding information and often casting fictions as the truth.
For something is important in the American Literature. He details well
things, and he takes care of nothing to get lost.

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 THOMAS JEFFERSON
U.S. Vice President, U.S. Governor, Government Official, Diplomat,
U.S. President (17431826)

Thomas Jefferson was a draftsman of the Declaration of Independence and the

third U.S. president (1801-09). He was also responsible for the Louisiana
Purchase.

Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743, in Shadwell, Virginia. He was a
draftsman of the U.S. Declaration of Independence; the nation's first secretary of
state (1789-94); second vice president (1797-1801); and, as the third president
(1801-09), the statesman responsible for the Louisiana Purchase. Jefferson died
in bed at Monticello (located near Charlottesville, Virginia) on July 4, 1826.

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 MY OPINION:

Thomas Jefferson dont had congruence, because he talked about

the freedom, but he had to 600 slaves. Freedom for whom?

Be supposed to that your mind and your acts must be in congruence.

And obviously you must believe in the acts, because the words are
gone with the wind.

His writes are goods, but I dont know. I dont believe in someone that
tells me something and then do something different.

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 WASHINGTON IRVING
Writer (17831859)

Famed 19th century American author Washington Irving is known for his
biographical works and such stories as 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow.'

Author Washington Irving was born in New York City in 1783. He achieved
international fame for the fictional stories "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow," as well as for such biographical works as A History of the Life
and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. Irving also served as the U.S.
ambassador to Spain in the 1840s, and pushed for stronger copyright laws
before his death in 1859.

MY OPINION:

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I love this guy!

I dont know why, but I liked his way of write. The stories are very
interesting, and I never had boring.

The story The Devil and Tom Walker is fiction, but it have many
trues about de real life, and thats was I liked.

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT

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 Poet (1794- 1878)

Born on November 3, 1794, William Cullen Bryant was an American

nature poet and journalist. He wrote poems, essays, and articles that
championed the rights of workers and immigrants. In
1829, Bryant became editor in chief of the New York Evening Post, a
position he held until his death in 1878. His influence helped establish
important New York civic institutions such as Central Park and the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1884, New York Citys Reservoir
Square, at the intersection of 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue, was
renamed Bryant Park in his honor.

MY OPINION:

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Cullen haves a way to see the world that it is magic. I just read his
poem Thanaptosis, and in this poem I could see that magic.

I dont know what to say, I just know a little bit about his life, and I
dont read all his works, but with Thanaptosis Im content.

It have a way very particular of write, that transmit the eloquence to

that the word describes.

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