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Authors 1semester Flashcards

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Five I’s

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Imagination 
Intuition 
Idealism
Inspiration 
Individuality
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Who were the fireside Poets?

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
William Cullen Bryant 
James Russell Lowell 
Oliver Wendell Holmes 
John Greenleaf Whittier
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Song of Hiawatha
Paul Reveres Ride
Evangeline

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow composed these

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Translated Dante’s Inferno from Italian to English

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Medical Doctor invented the term “anesthesia”

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Composed “Old Iron sides.” And saved the U.S.S Constitution from the scrapyard

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Wrote the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Father of American Poetry

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William Cullen Bryant

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Began to write poetry at age 9

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William Cullen Bryant

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Published first poem at age 10

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William Cullen Bryant

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Published first book at age 13

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William Cullen Bryant

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Age 19 wrote “Thanatopsis”

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William Cullen Bryant

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Editor of the New York Evening Post

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William Cullen Bryant

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William Cullen Wrote these before he was 21

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Thanatopsis
To a Waterfowl
Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood
The Yellow Violet

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William Cullen Bryant’s themes and techniques

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Death and Nature

Blank Verse and Iambic Pentameter

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One of the founders of the Republican Party

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William Cullen Bryant

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Candidate for President

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William Cullen Bryant

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Banned from Harvard for 40 years

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Had a mentally disabled brother

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Son died at age five of scarlet fever

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Known as the Father of transcendentalism

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Famous for Walden and Civil Disobedience

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Henry David Thoreau

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Mother was interested in social reform, and nature which helped shade His style

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Henry David Thoreau

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Internationally acclaimed as a classic of world literature

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Henry David Thoreau

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Tried to make money by gambling

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Edgar Allen Poe

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Nicknames were Tomahawk Man and Comanche of Literature

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Edgar Allen Poe

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Married cousin Virgina who was 13 he was 26

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Edgar Allen Poe

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