... HOUSE, JULY 10, 1666. It was the Puritans who most powerfully influenced the course of American literature and the formation of the American imagination. The period of ENLIGHTENMENT was recognized by Jonathan Edwards, who wrote SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD. This piece of history was written at the time of a religious revival, the "Great Awakening", which was marked by waves of ... conversions that spread from congregation to congregation- conversions so intensely emotional as to amount at times to mass hysteria. THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD, which existed from 1750-1800 ... , was the...

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