support and guidance with respect to my role this year. Also thanks to the Heads and Deputy Heads of Houses who have done a great service to the school and have left their own special mark in their respective houses. I have now reached the part of my speech where I am now going to try and offer a few words of wisdom. Before I attempt this, however, I believe it necessary to mention that I have been made fully aware by some of my friends that there is a certain amount of pressure on me this morning. To
INTRODUCTION AMERICAN LITERATURE American literature is the literature written or produced in the area of the United States and its preceding colonies. During its early history America was a series of British colonies on the eastern coast of the present day United States. Therefore it is literary tradition of English literature. However, unique American characteristics and the breadth of its production usually now cause it to be considered a separate path and tradition. The New England colonies
will change. Concepts of what is literature change over time as well.” The formalistic definition is that the history of “literature” foregrounds peotic effects: it is the literariness or poeticity of literature that distinguishes it from ordinary speech or other kinds of writings e.g. journalism. According to Thomas Hardy, Literature means “Times changes everything except something within us which is always surprise by change”. Many considered this is useful for the characteristics in explaining