colonial or early american period

founding of virginia

1607

17 th works

travel narratives, diaries and journals, religious texts and some poems

capitan john smith

a description of new england

puritan settlers

pilgrim fathers

puritan were focused on...

their spiritual and religious feeling rather than descriptions of america

what is puritanism? (4)

- movement withing the church of england in 2nd half of 16th - it asserted the innate sinfulness of a men - God is a powerful -man is a source of all evil

puritanism values (4)

1) self-reliance 2) hard-working 3) moderation 4) simple living

calvinist beliefs (5)

1) total depravity 2) unconditional election 3) limited atonement 4) irresible grace 5) perseverance of „saints”

first puritans arrived to...

mayflower in 1602 and found new plymouth

william bradford

on of the leader of mayflower he wrote an account „of plymouth plantation”

boston latin school

1635

john winthrop

the model of christian charity

anne bradstreet

first american female poet whose works were published. „to my dear and loving husband”

michales wigglesworth

the day of doom/poetical description of the great and last judgement

jonathan edwards

preacher and theologian „sinners in the hands of angry god”

characteristics of coloniar period

1) typical forma of writting: travel accounts, diaries, journals, religious and meditative poems 2) american puritan literature reflects the puritan mind: its calvinistic roots, morbid consciousness of sin, beliwf in predestination, the absence of free