Transcript Journal: What is American literature?

Stopping by Woods on a
Snowy Evening
by Robert Frost
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
American Literature
Time Periods
1607-1776 : Colonial Period
1765-1790 : The Revolutionary Age
1775-1828 : The Early National Period
1828-1865 : The Romantic Period (Also known as: The American Renaissance or The Age
of Transcendentalism)
1865-1900 : The Realistic Period
1900-1914 : The Naturalistic Period
1914-1939 : American Modernist Period
1920s : Jazz Age, Harlem Renaissance
1920s, 1930s : The "Lost Generation"
1939-present : The Contemporary Period
1950s : Beat Writers
1960s, 1970s : Counterculture
Colonial Period
History
1607
 1620
 1621
 1692
 1732
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Jamestown
Pilgrims land at Plymouth
First Thanksgiving
Salem Witch Trials
George Washington Born
Colonial Period
Literature
1624 History of Jamestown Colony
 1630 Of Plymouth Plantation- William
Bradford
 1650 Anne Bradstreet- First volume of
poetry
 1732 Benjamin Franklin- Poor Richard’s

Almanac

1741 John Edwards- “Sinners in the Hands
of an Angry God”