New World/Colonial Literature

The World was flat, and yet all cultures are round. With the collision of the Old World and the New in the 15th century, European cultures relived a brutal and new heroic age, leading to the collapse of all ancient BC cultures.  Whether it is seen as a time of man's greatness and vision to expand the world, or merely a dynamo effect and reminder of Imperial dominance, the resulting Literature, in response to the vastly globalizing world, .    of the  of by its sheer force on the European imagination, as allude to so wonderfully by 19th Century English and American Romantic poets, John Keats and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, or through the non-fiction approaches (historical sources) of the Explorers, as well as from varying fictional authors.

Abbott's "Hernando Cortez" [engravings, margin annotations]
Shakespeare's "The Tempest"
Keat's "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"
Longfellow's "Keats" and "Shakespeare", "Hiawatha"