America's Literature

From The general history of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles / John Smith -- from The history of Plymouth Plantation / William Bradford -- from The bloody tenet yet more bloody ; A letter to the town of Providence / Roger Williams -- Puritan poetry -- Before the birth of cone of her children ; To my dear and loving husband ; The flesh and the spirit ; Verses upon the burning of our house, July 10th, 1666 / Anne Bradstreet -- Preface to God's determinations touching his elect ; Prologue to God's determinations touching his elect ; Huswifery ; Mediation six ; Meditation thirty-eight ; Meditation fifty-six / Edward Taylor -- from Magnalia Christi Americana ; A general introduction ; Galeacius secundus : life of William Bradford / William Byrd -- from The history of the dividing line ; The Dismal Swamp and North Carolina / William Byrd -- Personal narrative ; Notes on the mind ; Nature / Jonathan Edwards -- The way to wealth ; from The autobiography ; Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one ; The ephemera / Benjamin Franklin -- from The journal of John Woolman / John Woolman -- from Letters from an American farmer ; What is an American? / Michel-Guillaume