精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上1. Captain John Smith became the first American writer.2. The puritans looked upon themselves as a chosen people.3. The first major intellectual spokesman of the Massachusetts Bay colony was John Cotton, sometimes called “the Patriarch of New England.”4. Anne Bradstreet published The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, and she was nicknamed the tenth Muse.5. Poor Richards Almanac is an annual collection of proverbs written by Benjamin Franklin.6. Thomas Paines