On this blog, we will be covering four hundred years' worth of American Literature. Our study will feature American writers including John Smith, William Bradford, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Phillis Wheatley, William Cullen Bryan, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Henry Dana, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Charles W. Chesnutt, Bret Harte, Henry Adams, Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, Jack London, Edith Wharton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, Willa Cather, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Amy Lowell, Langston Hughes, E.E. Cummings, T.S. Eliot, Sterling Hayden, Zora Neale Hurston, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Irwin Shaw, Ernie Pyle, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, J.D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, James Baldwin, John Updike, Bernard Malamud, E.L. Doctorow, Mary Oliver, Billy Collins, and Woody Allen.
We will study grammar usage and writing strategies. We will review and analyze texts to search deeper, often hidden, meanings.
We will receive perspectives of those generous enough to give accounts of their personal histories. We will understand the effects of their contexts on their writing.
I do not presume to be an expert on the English language; I am a student who has very limited experience with the world. I can only aim to share the guidance I have received in my learning and elevate my own comprehension of the English language by doing so. I hope this exercise will illuminate both my flaws and my strengths in writing and analysis.
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