American Literature Important Authors/Writers/ Their Works

American Literature

Important Authors/Writers/ Their Works

Benjamin Franklin                 Poor Richard’s Almana and Autobiography

Thomas Paine                        Common Sense / American crisis

Thomas Jafferson                  The Declaration of Independence.

Phillip Freneau                       his poems

Washington Irving                 Rip Van Winkle / The legend of Sleepy Hollow

James Fenimore                    Leather Stocking tales, a series of five novels

Edgar Ellan Poe                      The Murder in the Rue Morgue

Howthorne                             The Scarlet Letter , House of Seven Gabbles

Melville                                  Moby dick

Walt Whitman                       Leaves of grass, songs of myself

Emily Dickenson                    I heard a fly buzz …. When I died

                                                My life closed twice before its close.

Ralph Waldo Emerson          The American Scholar

Hernry David Thoreau          

Mark Twain                            The Adventure of Tom Sawyer , Life on Mississipi

                                                Adventure of Huckleberry finn

Henry James                          The Portrait of a lady, The Ambassador , The wings of dove, The Golden Bowl, Point of view.

Stephen Crane                       Red Badge of Courage

                                                A girl of the street.

Frand Norris                           Mc Teague

Theodore Dreiser                   Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy

Jack London                           The Call of the wild

Pound                                     In a station of the Metro

Sandburg                                The Fog

William Carlos William         The Red Wheel barrow

T. S. Eliot                                Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Arther Miller                          The Death of Salesman.