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1、Lecture 2,Colonial America,Puritan and Puritanism in Colonial America,Pious idealism Metaphorical mode of perception: the physical phenomenal world was nothing but a symbol of God. Austerity and rigidity,Style of Puritan writings,Fresh Simple Direct Plain and honest rhetoric With a touch of nobility
2、 often traceable to the direct influence of the Bible,Humble origins of American literature,Personal literature in various form: Diaries Histories Journals Letters Commonplace books Travel books sermons,The first early 17th-century British settlers in North America,Captain John Smith William Bradfor
3、d John Winthrop,Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672),Puritan Poet Four elements: the constitutions and ages of man, the seasons of the year, and the chief empires of the ancient world Her works search for a sense of mans nature and destiny and his mission in the new world.,Edward Taylor (1642-1729),Meditativ
4、e poet, nearest to the English Baroque poets Un-Puritan imagery, however, first and last, a Puritan poet Concerned about how his images speak for God,Roger Williams (1603-1683),Puritan dissenter Upholding the spiritual freedom of the individual: civil right,John Woolman (1720-1772),Preacher Religiou
5、s piety, the ideal of humanitarianism, the kind, gentle character of the man Thoreau and the New England Transcendentalists,Thomas Paine（1737-1809）,Unswerving fight for the right of man Common Sense,Philip Freneau （1752-1832）,Poet in the service of a nation struggling for independence See life direc
6、tly: “The Wild Honey Suckle”“The Indian Burying Ground ”Cooper, Emerson, Poe and Melville,Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810),18-century novelist The first American novel Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne,Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758),Religious idealism,Benjamin Franklin (1706-90),Levelheaded common sense,Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1735-1813),Ideal and anti-ideal,
