NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SAN MARTIN

FACULTY OF EDUCATION AND HUMANITIES

PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES

SUBJECT

Essay about 17th century, Colonial Period, Jhon Smith, Phillis Weathley,
James Fenimore and the romanticism period ,Edgar Allan Poe, James
Russell Lowrl, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson

STUDENT

Ericka Guisela Delgado Cercado

TEACHER

Lic.Mg.Freddy Silva Murrieta

COURSE

British And American Literature

TARAPOTO- PERU

2023
 INTRODUCTION
The history of American literature is important to know, for that in this
essay is presented about the 17th century, Colonial Period, the romanticism
period and notable authors of American literature include: John Smith, who
wrote some of its earliest works; Phillis, who wrote the first African American
book; Edgar Allan Poe, a standout of the Romantic era; Emily Dickinson, a
woman who wrote poetry at a time when the field was largely dominated by men
and others.
DEVELOPMENT

The 17th century, Colonial Period

This history of American literature begins with the arrival of English-
speaking Europeans in what would become the United States, Morton's poetry
was highly puritanical in nature, and one of the first published poetry books was
the Bay Psalm Book, a set of translations of the Bible's Psalms.

PROMINENT AUTHORS of Colonial Period

Jhon Smith English explorer and early leader of the Jamestown Colony,
the first permanent English settlement in North America, he helped Jamestown
flourish and he made the opposing cultures of the old and new worlds collide. In
Smith’s writing The General History of Virginia he describes the first settlement
before the first supply ships came.

Phillis Weathley
She was especially fond of writing inthe elegiac poetry style, perhaps
mirroring the genre of oration taught to her through the women in her African
American tribal group, They gave her the name "Phillis" because that was the
name of the ship that brought her, and Wheatley, which was the name of the
merchant who bought her, Her poetry was admired by many of the leading
figures of the American Revolution, including George Washington, who referred
to her for her "great poetic genius" and thanked her personally for a poem he
wrote in her honor.
 James Fenimore
He was an American novelist. He wrote eight adventure novels, in which
he recounts the life of the pioneers and their confrontations with the redskins.
Highlights The Pioneers (1823), The Last of the Mohicans (1826), His first great
novel that would give him some recognition, The Spy, set in the War of
Independence, told a story of counter-espionage.
THE ROMANTICISM PERIOD ,
The literature in the United States during the 19th century is highly
related to the development of a unique and individual national identity that could
be as far removed from the imperialist subject of the British Empire. This period
is romanticism in America.
In the Romanticism of the United States, two important periods can be
distinguished: the American Renaissance and the era of reconstruction., also

Edgar Allan Poe, He was an American short-story writer, poet, critic,

and editor who is famous for his cultivation of mystery and the macabra.,
according Poe Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the
only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.
The introspection that Poe made in his characters crossed borders that led
fiction towards mystery, terror and fantasy.

James Russell Lowell, He was an American Romantinc poet, critic,

essayist, editor, and diplomat whose major significance probably lies in the
interest in literature. He was one of the New England authors known as
"Fireside Poets"., The poems of James Russell Lowell are very structured and
are of general topics, like love and freedom, which were especially apparent in
the Enlightenment Era

Walt Whitman,
Born in Huntington on Long Island, his poetry often focused on both loss
and healing. Whitman accepts death as a fact of life, but believes in a universal
spirit of rebirth with nature, furthermore he wrote free verse on unconventional
subjects such as the human body, frequently including catalogs or parallels,
adding image upon image. Whitman has a strong sense of democracy, a belief
in the individual.

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886),lived with the security of a single, bourgeois

woman in a small Massachusetts town, The formal structure of her poetry is
witty, graceful, exquisitely crafted, and psychologically penetrating. Many of her
poems deal with the theme of death, often distorted. "Because I could not stop
for Death, he kindly stopped for me."

CONCLUSION
The slave narrative became one of the main themes in the history of their
literature. Thus, not only historical conflicts, but scientific and industrial
progress, religious beliefs and the social context affected the and development
of literary movements.
The Colonial Period of American Literature spans the time between the
founding of the first settlement at Jamestown to the outbreak of the Revolution.
The writings of this time centered on religious, practical, or historical themes

Romanticism was characterized by its emphasis on emotion and

individualism, clandestine literature, paganism, idealization of nature, suspicion
of science and industrialization, as well as glorification of the past with a strong
preference for the medieval rather than the classical, also Romanticism is
marked by a focus on individualism, an emphasis on nature, emotion over
reason, freedom of form, and an exploration of the Gothic and unknown.