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  1. englishliterature.info

    The hero of the Jamestown colony, and its savior during the first two years, was Captain John Smith, born in Willoughby, Lincolnshire, in 1580, twenty-four years before the death of Elizabeth and thirty-seven before the death of Shakespeare. Smith was a man of Elizabethan stamp,—active, ingenious, imaginative, craving new experiences.
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  3. Colonial Period American Literature Learn with flashcards, games, and more — for free. ... wee shall be made a story and a by-word through the world. "Citty upon a hill" is an example of _____ ... Captain John Smith is one of the writers whose report of exploration is described as one of the first distinctly American writing in English.
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  5. 64 THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL MAGAZINE. EARLIEST AMERICAN LITERATURE- CAP-TAIN JOHN SMITH. The last true knight-errant of the world was Cap-tain John Smith, of Virginia. A French soldier at seven-teen, three years in the Dutch army, shipwrecked at twenty-one, granted a patent of nobility in Austria for
  6. critics, a fact vividly demonstrated by a perusal of back issues of Early American Literature. The only essay devoted entirely to Smith is the present editor's "Captain John Smith, Autobiographer," which appeared in 1967 and subsequently was incorporated into Captain John Smith (New York, 1971). Smith's enigmatic visage appeared on the cover of the
  7. oxfordbibliographies.com

    "The Rehabilitation of Captain John Smith." Journal of Southern History 28.4 (November 1962): 474-481. DOI: 10.2307/2205411. After the Civil War, among a number of Northern historians (for example, Henry Adams and John Gorham Palfrey) Smith became a symbol of the Southern code of honor and was used as a conduit to attack the South itself.
  8. Metropolitan Museum Cleveland Museum of Art. Featured. All Images; Flickr Commons; Occupy Wall Street Flickr; Cover Art; USGS Maps; Top. ... Smith, John, 1580-1631. Publication date 2007 ... Writings by Captain John Smith. A true relation ; The proceedings of the English colonie in Virginia ; A description of New England ; New Englands trials ...
  9. press.rebus.community

    Major Writers of Early American Literature, edited by Everett Emerson, is simply a collection of various authors' biographies and studies on early American writers. This anthology strongly differs from other modern anthologies with its both historic and personal entries that capture the thoughts and ideas of a man in Puritan America.
  10. academic.oup.com

    Abstract. This article focuses on the famous American explorer Captain John Smith. Decisive leader, prolific writer, and astute American visionary, Captain John Smith was the crucial founder of the 1607 Jamestown colony in Virginia and an inspired promoter of English colonization in North America.
  11. sites.williams.edu

    smith, john (1580-1631). Although born in Lincolnshire, England, Captain John Smith initiated many traditions in American literature, among them geography, autobiography, and history. A True Relation (1608), his earliest account of his experiences in the Chesapeake Bay region of Maryland and Virginia, is the first book in English written ...

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