"Major Writers of Early American Literature" provides a fresh appraisal of the most important authors of seventeenth and eighteenth century America. Although knowledge of early American literature has been greatly widened and deepened in recent years, the standard study of this literature is nearly a hundred years old. It is time for a new study, which will take into account the modern reader as well as such recent findings as the discovery only a generation ago of America's best early poet.
"Major Writers of Early American Literature" provides a fresh appraisal of the most important authors of seventeenth and eighteenth century America. A...
"In establishing American independence, the pen and the press had a merit equal to that of the sword." So said David Ramsay in his" History of the American Revolution" (1789). His assessment is confirmed in full and rich detail in this broad survey of American literary effort during the Revolutionary years.
"In establishing American independence, the pen and the press had a merit equal to that of the sword." So said David Ramsay in his" History of the...
