century,themysterious
poverty andpersecution,a chance to start again.We can say that,as a nation,
hope.When,however,doesAmerican literature begin?
American literaturebegins with Amnerican experiences.Long before the first colonistsarrived,before
Christopher Columbus,before the Northmenwho"found"America about the year 1000,Native Americans
lived here. Eachtrilbe's literature was tightly woven into the fabric of daiiy life andreflected the unmistakably
American experienceof lining with the land。Anoiherkind of experience,one filled with fear and excite-
ment,found itsexpression in the reports that Columbus and other explorers sent home in
English.Inaddition,the journals of the people who lived and died in the
unforgettable talesof hard and sometimes heartbreaking experiences of those early years.
Experience,then,isthe key to early American literature.The
experiences,andthese experiences deniauded a wide variety of expressions by an even widervariety of early
Americanwriters.These wnters included John Smith,who spent only two-and-a-half year onthe American
continent.Theyincluded Jonathlan Edwards and William Byrd,who thought of themselves asBritish sub-
jects,neversuspecting a revolution that would create a
AmericanIndians,explorers,Puritan ministers,frontier wives,plantation owners一they are all the creators
of the firstAmerican literature.
A.Some Britishwriters started American literature.
B.Early-day Americanliterature is a reflection of the boring life then.
C.Some Britishwriters had doubts about the future of American literature.
D.Some Britishwriters had great confidence in the future of American literature.
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