Literary Influences in Colonial Newspapers

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Excerpt from Literary Influences in Colonial Newspapers: 1704-1750Literature in the American colonies in the earlier half of the eighteenth century was produced chie¿y' by ecclesiastics and by extremely practical men of 1 affairs. The New England divines were volumi nous writers. Any catalogue or bibliography of ante-revolutionary publications shows a large pro portion of sermons and theological treatises. Wherever such works have possessed literary or historical value, they have been fully analyzed by the literary historian. On the other hand, men of a¿airs like Benjamin Franklin and Colonel Wil liam Byrd, whose writings represent the over¿ow from varied activities, have also been studied. And these two classes of men produced all the well known literature of the period. Men of letters did not exist.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.