American Literature
William Byrd: (1674-1744) Contribution as American Author
William Byrd was a Diarist and a travel writer. He was born with a lively intelligence that h…
William Byrd was a Diarist and a travel writer. He was born with a lively intelligence that h…
Sarah Kemble Knight composed her journal as a descriptive record of a trip she took from Bost…
Unlike Mather, Robert Calef was a hard-headed cloth merchant who settled in Boston in 1688. H…
John Williams was a minister in the frontier town of Deerfield, Massachusetts where he was ta…
Mary Rowlandson was the earliest woman prose writer of considerable fame. As a wife of an Ame…
Edward Taylor was born in Leicestershire, England and, in fact, all of New England’s first-ge…
Born in Canterbury in 1598, Edward Johnson was not a man of letters but a historian of the ti…
Anne Hutchinson was the first boldest American Woman writer who represented the open challeng…
Thomas Morton, who thumped his nose of the saints in the Plymouth, might seem a prototype of …
Roger Williams, a fellow clergyman was more than Anne Hutchinson to the Puritans. At the end …
In no other colony, the people were as intellectual as the Puritans of the New England. They …
The American literature has its origin in folk literature. During the later period, it became…
Atmosphere / Context Elizabeth Latimer: No play was ever named more appropriately than this; …
It is true to say that Shakespeare is known to be a master storyteller. He is also considered…
Shakespeare has succeeded in creating a fantastical supernatural atmosphere in A Midsummer Ni…
Various Plots and Sub-plots: Shakespeare is known for his art of writing which is layered, r…