PPT-The most influential British-American Writers of the 18

th Century Three Powerful Pens By William J Miller The most influential BritishAmerican Writers of the 18 th Century B orn British subjects Benjamin Franklin Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine did more to help create America than any other BritishAmerican writers of the 18. Week . 2 . | . 1/28/16. Poet(s) of the Week: . Walt Whitman and Emily . Dickinson. Major . Poem: . The Comedian as the Letter C . 22. Domination . of Black 7; The Snow Man 8; Le Monocle de Mon . Oncle. Week 12 | . 4/14/16. Poet(s) of the Week: . Richard Wilbur and A. R. Ammons. Major Poem: . An Ordinary Evening in New Haven 399. The . Plain Sense of Things 428; Vacancy in the Park 434; The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain 435; Two Illustrations That the World is What You Make of It 435; Prologues to What is Possible 437; Looking Across the Fields and Watching the Birds Fly 439; The World as Meditation . 1914-1945. Snapshot of the Period. The America that entered the 20. th. century was a nation achieving dominance while . silmuntaneously. losing innocence. Two World Wars, a decade of prosperity, and a Depression marked this era. These upheavals ushered a period of literary boldness and lasting achievement. During this time the movie industry became a commercial powerhouse.. During the American Revolution, the overmatched colonists found a leader in George Washington and badly-needed French assistance after the Battle of Saratoga. When the war ended, the Treaty of Paris in 1783 brought independence and the formation of the United States. . There are several areas in which British and American spelling are different. These are the main ones to be aware of..  . Words ending in –re.  . British English words that end in . -re. often end in . Week 11 | 4/17/16. Poet(s) of the Week: . Robert Lowell and Frank O’Hara. Major Poem: . The Auroras of Autumn 355. Large Red Man Reading 365; This Solitude of Cataracts 366; The Ultimate Poem is Abstract 369; The Owl in the Sarcophagus 371; Saint John and the Back-Ache 375; A Primitive Like an Orb 377; Metaphor as Degeneration 381; What We See is What We Think 392; Angel Surrounded by . Week 4 | . 2/11/16. Poet(s) . of the Week: . William Carlos Williams [Presentation TBA] . Major Poem: . The Man with the Blue Guitar . 135. Poetry . Is a Destructive Force 178; The Poems of Our Climate 179; Study of Two Pears 180; The Glass of Water 181; The Man on the Dump 184; . Colonial 1650-1750. ~ The . Colonial movement . was. . mostly . instructional. . ~ It . was to spread the word . of. . . God, and help the . corrupted. . (which . was . everyone). . ~ This . Cultural . Liberation. Literature and the arts:. Most of earlier genteel writers had died by 1920s. New Yorker Edith Wharton and Virginia-born Willa Cather continued to be popular. Now new modernists becoming popular (see Thinking Globally section). 1915-1945. Dr. Karen Rose. Many . historians argue that America’s cultural coming of age occurs during this . time. . The . artistic innovations . of Modernism are viewed as a . response to . dramatic historical, cultural, and economic events.. (1775 – 1783). The Early Years of the War:. American were divided when it came to the war. 20 to 30 percent of Americans were Loyalists, 40 to 45 percent were Patriots, and the rest were . neutral. What is American Literature?. American Literature is exactly what it sounds like literature that is specific to America. So what exactly does that mean?. Early American Fiction (1492-1789). The history of American Lit. begins with the 1. Literary . Movements. September 8, 2014. Major themes . in American Literature. American individualism . Also known as . the self-made man. Celebration of ambition and achievement. Original colonists came for religious freedom. Romanticism, transcendentalism, gothic, etc.. Romanticism: What were some of the defining characteristics of the . romantics. ?. These writers and artists . take . inspiration from nature . and affirm the .