A history of American literature 1607 - 1765 created by Moses Coit Tyler

Includes index

First Colonial Period: 1607-1676 ; The beginning Virginia: the first writer Virginia: the early writers Virginia: It's literature during the remainder of the first period New England traits in the seventeenth century New England: historical writers New England: descriptions of nature and people in America New England: theological and religious writers New England: miscellaneous prose writers New England; the verse-writers Second Colonial Period: 1676-1765 ; New England: the verse-writers New England: the dynasty of Mathers New England: topics of popular discussion New England: history and biography New England: the pulpit in literature Literature in the middle colonies ; 1. New York and New Jersey 2. Pennsylvania Literature in Maryland, Virginia, and the South ; 1. Maryland 2. Virginia 3. North Carolina 4. South Carolina 5. Georgia General literary forces in the colonial times