American Literature Unit #8 Flashcards
Who was the founder of Transcendentalism?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who came the closest to carrying out the teaching of Transcendentalism?
Henry David Thoreau
What do Transcendentalist believe?
That man is divine and he must rely on himself and not be bound by biblical principles or human conventions. They taught that man should live close to nature and commune with it
Who wrote “Nature”, “Self-Reliance”, “Each and All”, “Concord Hymn”, “A Nation’s Strength”, “Voluntaries”, “The Rhodora”, “Days”, and the “Fable”?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who wrote “Walden”?
Henry David Thoreau
Who wrote “The Experiences of the A.C.”?
Bayard Taylor
Who wrote “I Hear America Singing”, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, “Oh Captain! My Captain!”?
Walt Whitman
Who was America’s first modern poet?
Walt Whitman
Read about Ralph Waldo Emerson
Read about Henry David Thoreau
Read about Bayard Taylor
What was the name of the group that tried to have a perfect community?
Arcadian Club
Who was Enos Billings?
The narrator and main character of “The Experiences of the A.C.”
Who is Abel Mallory?
The man who started the Arcadian Club, dictated what they were to eat, and discovered beer
Who was Hollins?
The man who said everyone should share there faults with everyone
