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American Literature

The web links to the major American writers are categorized chronologically into nine periods (1600-present) in the history of America-Early America-1750 represented by John Smith, Anne Bradford, Edward Taylor, William Byrd, and Jonathan Edwards; Reason and Revolution (1750-1800) represented by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine; Native Grounds(1800-1840) represented by Washington Irving, James Cooper, Edgar Allen Poe; New England Renaissance(1840-1855) represented by Ralph Waildo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathanial Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and James Lowell ; Conflict and Celebration(1855-1880) represented by Robert Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Mark Twain; Regionalism , Realism and Naturalism(1880-1916) represented by Jack London, Stephen Crane, Henry James, Richard Wright; New Directions(1916-1930) represented by T.S.Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Lanston Hughes, E.E.Cumming, Sinclair Lewis, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemmingway, E.Scott Fitzgerald; Midcentury Voice(1930-1960) represented by W.H.Auden, Robert Lowell, John Steinbeck, Williams Faulkner, Carson McCuller, Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neill, ; Our Time(1960-present) represented by Arthur Miller, Elinor Wylie William Stafford, James Wright, James Baldwin, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrisson.

http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/index.html: An amazing site: find any famous original quotations from the classical works of literature. A site you must visit.

Early America-1750

John Smith: http://www.cnu.edu/library/libhome.html -the library of Capitan John Smith

Anne Bradford

Edward Taylor

William Byrd

Jonathan Edwards: http://home.navisoft.com/outreach/Edwards.html-the writing of Jonathan Edwards

Reason and Revolution (1750-1800)

Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography

Thomas Jefferson: http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff1520.htm-Jefferson on Politics and Government

Thomas Paine: http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/cit/citlcpaine.htm-Library of Congress Citations

Native Grounds(1800-1840)

Washington Irving:

James Cooper: http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg134.htm-the classic text of James Cooper

Edgar Allen Poe:

http://www.rit.edu/~exb1874/mine/poe/poe_ind.html: Complete Collection of Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

New England Renaissance(1840-1855)

Ralph Waldo Emerson: works, essays, quotes, poems, biography, and other related materials: http://miso.wwa.com/~jej/1emerson.html

Henry David Thoreau: essays, quotes, poems, biography, and other related materials http://miso.wwa.com/~jej/1thorea.html

Nathanial Hawthorne: 19^th century literature-

http://history.hanover.edu/19th/literatu.htm
A Scarlet Letter

Herman Melville: 19^th century literature-a collection of his most famous books, such as, Moby Dick, Billy Bud,etc.

http://history.hanover.edu/19th/literatu.htm

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

The Biography of Longfellow: http://okemos.k12.mi.us/~henry/text/longfeba.html

The Anthology of his Poetry Online- http://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/longfellow.html

Conflict and Celebration(1855-1880)

Robert Lee

The largest selection of biographies in an interactive 3d vr (vrml/VRML type VRT virtual reality) cemetery setting including photos, life time biography from birth through death, ... http://www.tombtown.com/bios/frost.htm

Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass