Revolutionary period literature
sprang naturally enough from the turbulence of
popular excitement and emotion.
Poets
John Trumbull Joel Barlow
(17501831) (17541812)
McFingal The Columbiad
Timothy Dwight
(17521817)
The Conquest of Canaan
Columbia, Columbia, to
glory arise I Love thy
Kingdom, Lord
Francis Hopkinson (1737
1791 )
The Battle of the Kegs
The Yankee's Return
from Camp
Plays
Hugh H. Brackenridge
(17481816)
The Battle of Bunker Hill
Royall Tyler
(17571826)
The Contrast
William Dunlap
(17661839)
The Father,
or American
Shandyism
Novels
Sarah Wentworth Susanna H. Rowson
Morton (17621824)