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Captain John Smith to be the first American author
Nicholas Noyes wrote Doggerel verse
Michael Wiggleworth was known for his best selling poem The Day of Doom
religious questions were rich topics for early writings
. A journal written by John Winthrop discussed the religious foundations of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
American literature has a relatively short but colorful history
The first widely read American author was Benjamin Franklin
whose witty aphorisms and sound advice written in the yearly journal Poor Richard’s Almanack helped shape ideas of what it means to be an American
Washington Irving (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) was the first American to gain an international literary reputation
Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson broke from poetic tradition and brought a sense of individuality
American literature is part of world's literature
Most critics hold that the history of American literature can be divided into six parts, orderly, colonial period, romanticism, realism, naturalism, modernism and post-modernism
American literature is the written or literary work produced in the area of the United States and its preceding colonies