Colonial American Literature Lectures

Introduction to the Course Kathryn VanSpanckeren's Outlne of American Literature
Bradstreet Bradstreet Themes and Questions
Taylor Edward Taylor's Meditations & Metaphysical Verse
Rowlandson Titles, Themes, and Genres
Edwards An Overview of Edwards' Thought

Some Basic Views of Edwards

Franklin Franklin's Secular Soteriology
Jefferson Positions and Perspectives
Wheatley Wheatley's Poetic Voice

"All manner of thing shall be well/ When the tongues of flame are in-folded/ Into the crowned knot of fire/ And the fire and the rose are one." -- T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding