Colonial Period (1607-1749) Southern Planters Puritans

Southern Planters Jamestown, 1607 Major writers: William Byrd John Smith

Puritans Cape Cod, 1620 Separatists

Puritans Plague & Indians Major writers: William Bradford Anne Bradstreet Edward Taylor Jonathon Edwards

Of Plymouth Plantation William Bradford 1st American Poet Anne Bradstreet Best of colonial poets Edward Taylor “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” Jonathon Edwards

Puritans Style: Plain Pious Personal

Utopian Promise

“We shall be as a City upon a Hill, the eyes of all people are upon us; so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world.” -- John Winthrop Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Of Plymouth Plantation William Bradford, p. 76 “To My Dear and Loving Husband” Anne Bradstreet, p. 96 “Huswifery” Edward Taylor, p. 94 “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” Jonathon Edwards, p. 102

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