You have been asked to create an anthology of colonial American literature. Would you include these texts? Why or why not? What is your criteria for literature (or "literariness")? What is your criteria for American?

 

Possible texts:

La Florida

A Key Into the Language

Eliot's Bible

Wampum

The Generall Historie (text)

Mary Rowlandson's Captivity and Restoration (text)

The Day of Doom

Verses Upon the Burning...

Satisfaction in God