19th Century Americans Flashcards
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr (1809-1894)
“Old Ironsides” poem 1830, Breakfast Table series, also a medical doctor, son Jr was Chief Justice
“Hope” is the thing with feathers, Wild Nights - Wild Nights!, I Taste A Liquor Never Brewed, Because I Could Not Stop For Death, I’m Nobody, Who Are You?, I Felt A Funeral In My Brain, Tell All the Truth, But Tell it Slant, Success is Counted Sweetest, A Bird Came Down The Walk
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), complete works published 1955
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
Rip Van Winkle (1819), The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1920)
Kate Chopin (1850-1904)
The Awakening (1899), Louisiana writer
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820)
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
Self-Reliance (1841)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Transcendentalist
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
complete works published 1955 - recluse of Amherst - “Hope” is the thing with feathers, Wild Nights - Wild Nights!, I Taste A Liquor Never Brewed, Because I Could Not Stop For Death, I’m Nobody, Who Are You?, I Felt A Funeral In My Brain, Tell All the Truth, But Tell it Slant, Success is Counted Sweetest, A Bird Came Down The Walk
The Fireside Poets
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
Paul Revere’s Ride (1860)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Old Ironsides (poem, 1830)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr (1809-1894)
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
Little Women (1868) – then Little Men and Jo’s Boys
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
“Civil Disobedience” (1849), Walden (1854)
Little Women (1868)
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)