A Growing Nation Flashcards
1750-1800
Neo-classicism
Before 1750
Early American Puritanism
1800-1870
Romanticism
Wrote about their spiritual progress
Early American/Puritanism
Reason is the dominating characteristic of both nature and of human nature
Neo-classicism
Places central importance upon the emotions and upon the individual
Romanticism
Searching their sounds for signs of grace
Puritan
Emphasized reason over emotion social over personal and common over individual
Neo-classicism
Intuition individual emotion imagination humanitarian
Romanticism
Nature wild devil untamed
Puritan
Nature a system of rational laws
Neo-classicism
Nature source of beauty mystery strangeness
Romanticism
Wrote five “leather stocking tales”
James fenimore cooper
Set during the French and Indian war 1757
Last of the Mohicans
Characteristics of an American hero
Young. innocent pure. Sense of honor higher than societies honor. Has knowledge of people and life based on deep understanding not on education. Loves nature. Quests for higher truth.
Americas first action hero
Hawkeye
Hawkeys brother
Uncas
First American writer to achieve an international reputation
Washington Irving
Born in the final year of the revolutionary war
Washington Irving
Wrote rip van winkle
Washington Irving
Most popular story in the world
Rip van winkle
Wrote legend of the sleepy hollow
Washington Irving
Where is Irving’s home?
Sunny side, at tarry town on the Hudson River
1st American poet to make a living writing poetry
Henry wads worth Longfellow
Wrote poetry for a family audience usually on subjects of general appeal; nature home and family religious and moral lessons and patriotism
Fireside poets
People apart of the fireside poets
James Russell Lowell Oliver Wendell Holmes John greenleaf Whittier Henry wads worth Longfellow
Longfellow is known for
Paul reveres ride, the courtship of miles standish, the song of Hiawatha, Evangeline
Hiawathas lover
Minnehaha
When was Hiawatha written?
1855
Unstressed/stressed
Iamb
Stressed/unstressed
Trochee
Anapest
Unstressed unstressed stressed
Stressed unstressed unstressed
Dactyl
Father of American poetry
William Cullen Bryant
The first American to produce a body of work that could be matched against the achievement of English poets
William Cullen Bryant
Used his position as a journalist to defend defend human rights and personal freedoms
William Cullen Bryant
Fought to ensure that industrialization did not obscure Americas democratic values
William Cullen Bryant
Wrote thanatopsis
William Cullen Bryant
A major work establishing the new romantic movement in American literature
Thanatopsis
Presents the poets thoughts on death and it’s links to nature, nature brings joy and comfort to those who love it, death need not be feared or despised
Thanatopsis
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter, closet to the natural speaking voice
Blank verse
Creator of the detective story, most important American poet before Walt Whitman, with n. Hawthorne he helped shape the short story
Edgar Allen Poe
Setting is bleak and remote, plot involves weird or violent incidents, characters are in psychological and/or physical torment, a supernatural or otherworldly element is often present
Gothic style
Poes wife
Virginia
He earned 14 dollars for..
The raven
Virginia was immortalized in …
Annabelle lee
After Virginias death Poe proposed to …
Helen Whitman
To Poe tuberculosis was the … Death
Red
What school did Poe go to?
University of Virginia
