Early American Literature Links

• General Puritan New England links and history
• Early American literature and history timeline

The Puritans
 

• John Calvin Institutes of the Christian Religion "On Idolatry" -Electronic Reserves
• William Bradford - Of Plymouth Plantantion
•      -"The Common Course and Condition" -Electronic Reserves
•      -"Appendix I  - Downfall of the bishops" -Electronic Reserves
•      - "Appendix X - Opinions on Unsavory Vice" -Electronic Reserves
• Thomas Hooker, Sermons - Electronic Reserves
• John Winthrop:
•  "Christian Charitie"
• "A Short Story" -Electronic Reserves
•  :Unsavoury Speeches Confuted"  -Electronic Reserves
• Williams "John Winthrop and the Origins of American Multiculturalism"
• Narrative of the Captivity of Mary Rowlandson
• Edward Taylor Two Poems Electronic Reserves
• Michael Wigglesworth "A Song of Emptiness to Fill Up the Empty Pages Following" - E. Reserves
• Cotton Mather "The Nishmath-Hajim" - Electronic Reserves
• Cotton Mather from "Wonders of the Invisible World" - electronic reserves
• Jonathan Edwards:
• "Personal Narrative"
• "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
• "Divine and Supernatural Light"
•  Read Part One, especially section V  from "Freedom of the Will"
• David Williams,
• "Edwards and Skinner" -  Electronic Reserves
• "The Wilderness Sojourn of Mary Moody Emerson" Electronic reserves
• "Thelma and Louise in the Wilderness; or Butch Cassidy and Jonathan Edwards in Drag
• "This Consciousness that is Aware: Emily Dickinson" - Electronic Reserves

•  St Jean de Crevecoeur : "What is an American?" Electronic Reserves

• Benjamin Franklin
• Autobiography1
• Autobiography2
• Autobiography3
• Autobiography4
• Autobiography5
• Autobiography8
• D.H. Lawrence on "Ben Franklin"
• William Byrd "Diary" -Electronic Reserves
• Thomas Jefferson
• "Declaration of Independence"
• From "Notes on Virginia"
• Letter to Peter Carr

• Ralph Waldo Emerson:
• "Nature"
• "Self-Reliance"
• "The Poet"
• Henry David Thoreau
• From Walden "Where I lived and What I lived For"
• "Civil Disobedience"
• "Plea for John Brown"
• WaltWhitman
• "Song of Myself"
• "Spontaneous Me"
• "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"
• "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"
• Emily Dickinson
• Selected Poems Electronic Reserves
•    Williams  "This Consciousness that is aware:" - Electronic Reserves
•     Williams "Bob Dylan and Emily Dickinson: Typological Poets of the Broken Heart"
• Nathaniel Hawthorne "The minister's Black Veil"
• Herman Melville - biography and links
• Melville's Letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne