American Literature I: An Anthology of Texts From Early America the Early 20th Century
About This Book
7 Author Introduction-Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) Wendy Kurant A sailor from his youth, Christopher Columbus sought to discover a mercantile route to Asia via the Atlantic Ocean, a route he calculated as only 3,000 miles across the Atlantic. Winning support in 1492 from Ferdinand and Isabella, monarchs of Spain, Columbus embarked on his historic voyage that failed to discover the route to Asia but instead discovered the New World, where he first landed at what is now the Bahamas. After that
| Category | humanities |
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| Subject | Biography, Literature and Literary studies |
| Year | 2023 |
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| Chapters | 56 |
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| License | Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ |
Chapters
- 7 Author Introduction-Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)
- 13 From Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, Volume 3
- 14 Author Introduction-Thomas Harriot (1560-1621)
- 15 A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
- 20 Letter to his Father and Mother
- 25 A Modell of Christian Charitie
- 29 An Epitaph on My Dear and Ever-Honored Mother, Mrs. Dorothy Dudley, Who Decea
- 30 Preface to The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up in America
- 35 Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666
- 40 Author Introduction-Francis Pastorius (ca. 1651-1720)
- 47 Letter of Thomas Brattle, F. R. S.,
- 49 Prologue
- 51 Upon Wedlock and Death of Children
- 52 Upon a Spider Catching A Fly
- 53 Huswifery
- 55 On Sarah Pierrepont
- 61 To the Univeristy of Cambridge, in New England
- 62 Letter to Rev. Samson Occom
- 63 To His Excellency General Washington
- 64 Author Introduction-Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713-1755)
- 65 From Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge
- 68 Author Introduction-John Adams (1735–1826) & Abigail Adams (1744–1818)
- 71 From Declaration of Independence Draft By Thomas Jefferson in progress– needs
- 76 From The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Part II
- 84 Author Introduction-Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820)
- 85 On the Equality of the Sexes
- 86 Author Introduction-Hannah Webster Foster (1758-1840)
- 87 From The Coquette
- 91 The Wild Honey Suckle
- 93 Author Introduction-Tecumseh (1768–1813)
- 94 Speech of Tecumseh to Governor Harrison
- 98 Author Introduction-William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)
- 99 To A Waterfowl
- 103 Author Introduction-Jane Schoolcraft (1800–1842)
- 108 “Georgia Theatrics”
- 109 The Dance, A Personal Adventure of the Author
- 114 Excerpts from Nature
- 115 The Rhodora
- 128 Wakefield
- 138 Sonnet to Science
- 145 The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids
- 154 Indian Names
- 155 To a Shred of Linen
- 162 Author Introduction-Alice Cary (1820-1871)
- 168 Author Introduction-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
- 174 Author Introduction-Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
- 186 To the Garden the World (ca.1891-1892)
- 187 Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City (ca.1891-1892)
- 191 Author Introduction-Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
- 210 The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1865)
- 211 A True Story (1876)
- 214 Editha
- 216 Author Introduction: Henry James (1843 – 1916)
- 222 At the ‘Cadian Ball
- 230 Out, Out —