Choose one of the topics below on which to write a well-organized, thoughtful essay of at least 500 words

Choose one of the topics below on which to write a well-organized, thoughtful essay of at least 500 words. Make sure your essay contains a clearly stated thesis sentence and an organization to support that thesis. Quote from the primary works on literature you examine. Your essay should contain at least two quotations from each source used (10 quotations in all). Internally cite quotations correctly (page numbers for fiction,and line numbers for poetry).). Be sure to use correct MLA format for these internal citations. Secondary sources are not required or necessary, but if they are used, provide a Works Cited page. If the textbook is the only source used for the primary works, a Works Cited page is not necessary.

Topic A. Trace the influence of Puritan thinking in assigned works by each of the following: William Bradford, Mary Rowlandson, Benjamin Franklin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau.

Topic B. Identify five (5) principles of literary Romanticism and provide examples of such in assigned works of literature by each of the following: Washington Irving, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Walt Whitman. (Note: not every literary work will contain all of the principles you examine).