Part 2: Knickerbockers and New England School

Question 1

Washington Irving

Answer 1

(1783-1859)
Original “Knickerbocker”
Wrote Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Question 2

James Fenimore Cooper

Answer 2

(1789-1851)
Wrote the Deerslayer
began writing on a dare

Question 3

William Cullen Bryant

Answer 3

(1794-1878)
Thanatopsis–resigned to death, no afterlife, To a Waterfowl–power guides man
Editor of Evening Post

Question 4

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Answer 4

(1807-1882)
Song of Hiawatha, Mezzo Cammin, Divina Commedia, Seaweed, hymn to night
Wife died, produced best work

Question 5

John Greenleaf Whittier

Answer 5

(1807-1892)
Not formally educated
Ichabod-Personal expression, imagination, Dirge for Daniel Webster; First Day Thoughts-individualistic, Quaker inner light; Snow-Bound-nature, distant, imagination; Hunt for Men

Question 6

James Russell Lowell

Answer 6

(1819-1891)

A Fable for Critics, The Courtin’, The lesson–what makes God different from me?

Question 7

Oliver Wendall Holmes

Answer 7

(1809-1894)
Part of over-soul, pantheist
Old Ironsides, Chambered Nautilus

Question 8

4 Pillars of Romanticism

Answer 8

(1869-1965)

Individualistic (idealistic, humanistic)
Imagination
Nature
Distant

Question 9

Phillis Wheatly

Answer 9

(1753-1784)
First recognized female slave poet
Poems on Various subjects… To the Uni of Cambrige

Question 10

Characteristics of literature

Answer 10

Comprehensive Visio of life
Scope and depth
Instruct and entertain
Lasting
Challenges accepted values
Authentic and honest