Lame Flashcards
Anne Bradstreet
First published poet
Edward Taylor
Americas best Puritan poet
John smith
Helped lay foundation for American literature
The American Revolution period
1750-1800
Writing was meant for
Public speaking
Hector at.john
Coined melting pod
Ben Franklin
Wrote poor Richards almanac
Thomas Jefferson
Known for quality writing
Louisiana purchased
Doubled size of Us
Romantic period
1800-1840
Highest expression of imagination
Poetry
Washington Irving
Father of America literature
Washington Irving wrote
The sleepy hollow and rip van winkle
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The dark romantic , wrote scarlet letter
Edgar Allen Poe
Created destructed story
Herman Melville
Wrote move dick
American romantic hero
Young, innocent
Mericanrenaissnc
Nature is key
Ralph Waldo
Transcend
Henry David
A transcend
His essay inspired MLK AND GHNDI
MEN should govern themselves
Walt Whitman
A poet
O captain my Captain
Emily Dickinson
Transcend poet
Goralhobic- afraid to go outside
5 themes - love nature friendship death immortality
Louisa May Alcott
Wrote little woman
Harriet beecherstove
Most famous woman of her day
Wrote uncle toms cabin
American romantic poets
Influenced by European styles
John Henry wads worth fellow
John green leaf whiteer
Naturalists
Nature nod hereditary
They deny religion
Believed in chance
Believe in deternam
Stephen crane
Went against everything
Wrote red badge of courage
Works renti war
Jack London
Rebel it hour a cause
Wolf books
Modern period
1900-1950
Rejected American Dream
Believed in grceunderpressurd
Ernest Hemingway
Mordernistwriter
Who startedliterature
Puritans
