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The Native Americans had a form of literature long before the Europeans. They told culturally significant stories and passed them around from tribe to tribe.

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Reverend Samson Occom, Zitkála-Šá, Charles Eastman, James Welch, Paula Gunn Allen, Eden Robinson and Sherman Alexie.

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the cardinal directions, earthward and center.

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Some of the first poetry was written in America and about America. there was a lot of division going on at this time between division church and state so the writers ranged from ministers to the non religious.

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At this time the nation was fighting for independence. the authors wrote what they thought was much needed for the new nation.

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The American gothic Surrounds a dark theme fueled by the writers fears and anxiety. Some of the wrings are based on experiences from the writers using the post was gloom.

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Arrived in America 1820 showing the importance of thoughts and emotions. It is the idea that all of mankind is born good.

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Shows things for what they really are. Did not try to dress thing up and make them look better or worse than they actually are.

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Contained pain and loss but also hope that one could change their surroundings during depressing times .

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John Smith, Anne Bradstreet, Roger Williams, Thomas Morton.

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Thomas Paine and William Hill Brown

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Washington, Edgar Allen Poe, William Faulkner, Stephen King

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Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller.

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Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Frank Norris, Stephen Crane,

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Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, New English Canaan.

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The Age of Reason, and The Power of Sympathy

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, the raven, The Cask of Amontillado.

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The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick, and Walden

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, andThe Open Boat.

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The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, and Farewell To Arms.