Becoming America - An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution, 2018a

PART TWO: SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH
COLONIAL LITERATURE 95
2.1 Learning Outcomes 95
2.2 Introduction 95
2.3 William Bradford 99
2.3.1 Of Plymouth Plantation 101
2.3.2 Reading and Review Questions 135
2.4 John Winthrop 135
2.4.1 A Model of Christian Charity 136
2.4.2 Reading and Review Questions 146
2.5 Roger Williams 147
2.5.1 Christenings Make Not Christians 148
2.5.2 Reading and Review Questions 155
2.6 Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore 156
2.6.1 From A Relation of the Lord Baltemore’s Plantation in Maryland 156
2.6.2 Reading and Review Questions 169
2.7 Anne Bradstreet 169
2.7.1 “The Prologue” 171
2.7.2 “The Author to er Book” 172
2.7.3 “To My Dear and Loving usband” 173
2.7.4 “Contemplations” 173
2.7.5 “ere Follows Some erses upon the Burning of Our ouse” 180
2.7.6 “In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet” 182
2.7.7 “In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Anne Bradstreet” 182
2.7.8 “On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet” 183
2.7.9 Reading and Review Questions 183
2.8 Michael Wigglesworth 184
2.8.1 The Day of Doom 185
2.8.2 Reading and Review Questions 237
2.9 Mary Rowlandson 237
2.9.1 From The Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson 238
2.9.2 Reading and Review Questions 264
2.10 Edward Taylor 265
2.10.1 “Prologue” to Preparatory Meditations 265
2.10.2 “Preface” to God’s Determination 266
2.10.3 “Meditation 8” First Series) 267
2.10.4 “Medication 32” First Series) 268
2.10.5 “A Fig for Thee, O Death” 268
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