CONTENTS
Part I The Early American Literature 1620-1770
Chapter 1 The Seventeenth Century Literature............................ 2
Puritanism in American Literature.............................................2
Chapter 2 The Eighteenth Century Literature............................... 8
Enlightenment in American Literature.......................................8
Benjamin Franklin....................................................................10
Autobiography......................................................................12
Philip Freneau...........................................................................23
To the Memory of the Brave Americans..............................25
The Wild Honey Suckle........................................................27
Part II The Age of Romanticism 1770-1875
Chapter 3 American Literature of Pre-Romanticism.................. 32
The Rise of Romanticism.........................................................32
Washington Irving....................................................................35
Rip Van Winkle.....................................................................38
William Cullen Bryant..............................................................49
To a Waterfowl.....................................................................50
Chapter 4 American Literature of Post-Romanticism................ 56
New England Transcendentalism.............................................56
Ralph Waldo Emerson..............................................................59
Nature...................................................................................62
Walt Whitman...........................................................................64
Leaves of Grass....................................................................66
Song of Myself.................................................................68
I Hear America Si