A short history of America's literature : with selections from colonial and revolutionary writers

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The colonial period

The revolutionary period

The Knickerbocker school

The national period

earlier years : The Transcendentalists ; The anti-slavery writers ; The Cambridge poets ; The historians ; The Southern writers

The national period

later years : 1865- Selections from colonial and revolutionary authors : George Sandys ; John Smith ; William Bradford ; John Winthrop ; The Bay Psalm Book ; Michael Wigglesworth ; Anne Bradstreet ; The New England Primer ; Cotton Mather ; Samuel Sewall ; Jonathan Edwards ; Roger Williams ; John Eliot ; Nathaniel Ward ; William Byrd ; John Woolman ; The Boston News-Letter ; Benjamin Franklin ; James Otis ; Richard Henry Lee ; Patrick Henry ; Thomas Paine ; Thomas Jefferson ; George Washington ; Alexander Hamilton ; John Jay ; James Madison ; Timothy Dwight ; John Trumbull; Joel Barlow ; Philip Freneau ; Charles Brockden Brown