The chief early writers of Virginia are
:
1)
Captain John Smith
, who described the country and the Indians, and gave to literature the story of
Pocahontas, thereby disclosing a new world to the imagination of writers;
2)
William Strachey
, who outranks contemporary colonial writers in describing the wrath of the sea,
3) two poets
a)
George Sandys
, who translated part of Ovid
b) the unknown author of the elegy on Nathaniel Bacon;
4)
Robert Beverly and William Byrd
, who gave interesting descriptions of early Virginia.
The chief colonial writers of New England are
:
1)
William Bradford
, whose
History of Plymouth Plantation
tells the story of the first Pilgrim colony;
2)
John Winthrop
, who wrote in his
Journal
the early history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony;
3) the poets, including
a) the translators of the
Bay Psalm Book
, the first volume of so-called verse printed in the British
American colonies
b)
Wigglesworth
, whose
Day of Doom
, was a poetic exposition of Calvinistic theology
c)
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