Talk:American Literature/Colonial Period (1620s-1776)

No Need To Reinvent the Wheel
Rather than write this page from scratch, I took a work already written and safely out of copyright (History of American Literature, by Reuben Post Halleck) in order to update and transform it over time into a good textbook for us. I have gone ahead and placed the section here with very few changes, but in the coming days plan to alter formatting, information, and to supplement it with hyperlinks to the texts referred to in the text. Feel free to beat me to the punch. There is much I do not know about Wiki-text, so I hope this will become a collaboration.DanQuigley (talk) 06:23, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

First Draft Done
Okay, I have cleaned up much of the borrowed text, deleted or corrected items I knew to be wrong, or that would have particularly grated on a modern ear. I think this is a good base on Colonial literature upon which a more modern text can eventually be constructed. I hope others find it as enjoyable and useful a read as I have.

The next tasks: 1) Update the sections with better, more modern information. Continue to revise the text for smoother flow. 2) Begin to put in links to Wikipedia and works that are discussed in the text and available online.DanQuigley (talk) 04:23, 15 November 2008 (UTC)