Authors Flashcards
Who ventured through the mountains this culture to write about it, and was shamed for calling the savage culture in some ways superior to Western cultures.
Herman Melville
Who wrote poetry about the beauty of life and the morality of men.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Who is the childhood prodigy that brought European Romanticism to the American colonies, editor of the NY Evening Newspaper.
William Cullen Bryant
Who is the author that was kicked out of Yale and started writing because of his wife.
James Fennimore Cooper.
Who stayed at Walden Pond for two years and then left for the very same reason he came?
Henry David Thoreau
Who is the father of the short story with tales like Rip Van Winkle and Sleepy Hallow
Washington Irving
Who is the author obsessed with the Puritans and writes about the sins committed in those with power and the effects in Puritan communities.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Who was born in Boston but moved to Baltimore to write. Wrote many short stories and was famous for his gothic literature.
Edgar Allen Poe
