Romantic Lit Pt 1 Authors

Question 0

What are the 3 things Washington Irving is known as?

Answer 0

“First Man of American Letters”, “Dean of American Literature”, “Inventor of the Short Story”

Also was the first American writer to become famous throughout world

Question 1

What did Washington Irving write?

Answer 1

Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Devil and Tom Walker

Question 2

Who could be considered America’s finest novelist?

Answer 2

James Fennimore Cooper (writings were highly romantic because of their frontier setting)

Question 3

What are James Fennimore Cooper’s writings?

Answer 3

The Leatherstocking Tales, The Deer Slayer, The Pathfinder, The Last of the Mohicans (all followed Natty Bumpo’s adventures)

Question 4

What 2 things is William Cullen Bryant known as?

Answer 4

“Father of American Poetry”, “America’s First Great Poet of Nature”

Question 5

What types of works was Edgar Allan Poe known for?

Answer 5

Inventing the modern detective story, horror tale, and literary criticism; known for short stories and poetry (poetry was extremely melodic and has an eeire quality)

Question 6

Name some of Edgar Allan Poe’s poems and short stories.

Answer 6

Poems- “The Raven”, “Annabel Lee”, “To Helen”
Short Stories- “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “Murders in the Rue Morgue”, “Masque of the Red Death”, “The Fall of the House of Usher”

Question 7

Which author worked from his Puritan heritage and created “allegories of the heart” which developed themes of sin and guilt?

Answer 7

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 8

What is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s best known novel and short story?

Answer 8

The Scarlett Letter and “Young Goodman Brown”

Question 9

Who is ranked as one of America’s top novelists?

Answer 9

Herman Melville

Question 10

Name writings of Herman Melville.

Answer 10

Moby Dick (America’s greatest prose epic), “Billy Budd”, “Bartleby”

Question 11

Name the writings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Answer 11

“Evangeline”, “Song of Hiawatha”, “Paul Revere’s Ride”

Question 12

Name the writings of John Greenleaf Whittier.

Answer 12

“Snowbound”, Ichabod Crane”

Question 13

Name what James Russell Lowell wrote.

Answer 13

“The Courtin’”

Question 14

What did Oliver Wendell Holmes write?

Answer 14

“Old Ironsides”, “The Last Leaf”, “The Chambered Nautilus”

Question 15

Who is the founder of transcendentalism?

Answer 15

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 16

What did Ralph Waldo Emerson write?

Answer 16

“Concord Hymn”, “Self-Reliance”

Question 17

Who was the most ardent follower of Emerson, and came the closest to following teachings of transcendentalism?

Answer 17

Henry David Thoreau

Question 18

What were Henry Thoreau’s writings?

Answer 18

“Civil Disobdience” (essay), and Walden (novel stressing his experiment in self-sufficient living)

Question 19

Define Romanticism:

Answer 19

A view of life emphasizing man’s aspirations, emotions, invidiuality, personal experiences, imagination, and the distant (used distant and often mysterious and exoic settings in both space and time)

Question 20

What were characteristics of Romantic writings?

Answer 20

Stressed personal experience and their writings were highly emotional

Question 21

The 19th century in America was a time of great ___________ and ____________ on the western frontier and high seas as the new nation epanded.

Answer 21

frontier and exploration

Question 22

What new forms of literature rose in the Romantic period?

Answer 22

Novel, short story, essays, periodical, literary criticism, humor, America’s finest poetry

Question 23

Poe’s writings dealt with what areas of Romanticism?

Answer 23

Superficial, fanciful, mysterious, adventerous, and gothic (dark irrational side of the imaginiation)

Question 24

Awareness of emotions replaced __________.

Answer 24

reason

Question 25

What do Poe’s characters often display?

Answer 25

Poe often displays tortured minds and habits of inward-looking characters

Question 26

What do Hawthorne’s characters display?

Answer 26

Effects of personal guilt that his characters experience

Question 27

What did romantic writings focus on?

Answer 27

Individuality, Idealism, Nationalism

Question 28

Define the theme of individuliaty.

Answer 28

Focus on self and the indiviual and personal aspiration

Question 29

Define the theme of idealism.

Answer 29

Belief in a heroic mode of behavior that would make life worthwhile (Washington Irving & James Fennimore Cooper focused on this)

Question 30

Define the theme of Nationalism.

Answer 30

Writers exhibited passionate love of country; were completely aware of importance of establishing

Question 31

What 2 genres did Romanticism make contributions to?

Answer 31

The novel and short story

Question 32

What are the classifications of Romantic writers?

Answer 32

Knickerbockers (in NYC), New England School, Fireside/Schoolroom Poets

Question 33

How did Ralph Waldo Emerson spread transcendentalism?

Answer 33

Through the lyceum (speaking tour)

Question 34

What writers were “Knickerbockers”?

Answer 34

Washingon Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant

Question 35

What writers in the New England School?

Answer 35

Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville

Question 36

Who were the Fireside or Schoolroom Poets?

Answer 36

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes