Literary Contexts

Question 1

Major authors included Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen.

Answer 1

Harlem Renaissance

Question 2

Major authors included John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Lord Byron

Answer 2

British Romantics

Question 3

Major authors included John Donne, Andrew Marvell, and George Herbert.

Answer 3

Metaphysical Poets

Question 4

Major authors included Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.

Answer 4

Transcendentalism

Question 5

Embracing literary, musical, theatrical, and visual arts, participants sought to reconceptualize “the Negro” apart from the white stereotypes that had influenced Black peoples’ relationship to their heritage and to each other. They also sought to break free of Victorian moral values and bourgeois shame about aspects of their lives that might, as seen by whites, reinforce racist beliefs.

Answer 5

Harlem Renaissance

Question 6

characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of all the past and nature, preferring the medieval rather than the classical. It was partly a reaction to the Industrial Revolution,[1] the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment, and the scientific rationalization of nature—all components of modernity

Answer 6

Romanticism

Question 7

they are all highly intellectualized, use rather strange imagery, use frequent paradox and contain extremely complicated thought.

Answer 7

Metaphysical Poetry

Question 8

it taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity, and its members held progressive views on feminism and communal living. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were central figures.

Individualism, idealism, and divinity of nature

Answer 8

Transcendentalism