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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Background For Literature

Beginnings:

Poetry sprang up slowly in America because the majority of men and women
in Virginia, New England, and the other new colonies were simple, hard-working
people faced with the hard tasks of a new life. The settlers had little or no
literary background. Frontier conditions were hardly conducive to those who
did have literary talent. The one positive element, as far as a help to
literary production is concerned, was the great value Puritans and Quakers
placed on learning and the Bible. But even this was ...

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