The idea this paragraph conveys is that the colonies literature was simple compared to England's literature
In this paragraph, the author compares the literary tradition in England and the literary tradition in the colonies. About this, the main points are:
By the time of the colonization, England had a complex and advanced literary tradition
In the colonies, writers focused on observations rather than on creative or fictional writing
From this, it can be inferred the literature in the colonies was not as complex and advanced as the one in England, and therefore, this literature was simple.
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