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Authored "Annabel Lee"
Edgar Allan Poe
Wrote “Moby Dick”
Herman Melville
Once maintained a one-man community
Henry David Thoreau
Poe was a pioneer of American literary criticism.
To him who in the love of Nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language;
The notion that “Nature…/…speaks” is an example of
Allegory
One of the major characters in Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener” is a Lawyer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes describes his essay as "our intellectual Declaration of
Independence."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The "Melville Revival" occurred in _______
1920's and 1930's
We slowly drove – He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility –
The “He” in the poem is an example of ________
Personification
Counters William Paley's "The Duty of Submission to Civil Government."
Henry David Thoreau
Primitivism is the belief in the superiority of the simple life and the remote.
To him who in the love of Nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language; for his gayer hours
She has a voice of gladness, and a smile
And eloquence of beauty, and she glides
Into his darker musings, with a mild
And healing sympathy, that steals away
Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
According to the excerpt, “Nature…/… speaks” "various language," such as
Poetry
“Young Goodman Brown” is an example of Hawthorne exploring New England’s Puritan
past.
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This character is portrayed as imprudent and irrational.
Herman Melville
Says life aboard ship (on sea) was “his Harvard and his Yale.”
Herman Melville
Uses references to walls as symbols/metaphors of confinement
Herman Melville
Dying unmourned is not important, according to this speaker/poet
William Cullen Bryant
Exaltation of emotion over reason is one of the characteristic of Romanticism.
E pluribus unum, Latin for “one from many,” is thematized in this
poem_______ Selected ““Song of
Answer: Myself”
A chief advocate of politics of conscience in his essay titled “Civil Disobedience”
Henry D. Thoreau
When journeying in the forest, this character believes he sees the “elect” in his town going
astray. His “experiences” could be real or a dream.
Young Goodman Brown
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Published only seven poems during her lifetime.
Emily Dickinson
Published “Nature,” articulating transcendentalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Advocates outdoor worship or primitivism in his poetry
William Cullen Bryant
His story alludes to New England's (America’s) Puritan Past.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Expresses the idea of the expansive self in his poem titled “Song of Myself.”
Walt Whitman
Argued that the scholar derives truth about himself and democratic America through nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Which of the following is/are major Romantic characteristics of Washington Irving's writing:
All the above
Says he sought to be "continually piquant" and aimed at the presentation of "sound moral."
Washington Irving
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Lived all her life in Amherst, Mass.
Emily Dickinson
To him who in the love of Nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language; for his gayer hours
She has a voice of gladness, and a smile
And eloquence of beauty, and she glides
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And healing sympathy, that steals away
Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
The above is an excerpt from________
“Thanatopsis”
Says the scholar must never bow to the popular will.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Described poetry as "The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty"
Edgar Allan Poe
Asserts that United States is "essentially the greatest poem"
Walt Whitman
Primitivism and pantheism are some of the major characteristics of Romanticism.
Says the individual is only instrument to ascertain truth, to find God for himself through
himself
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Washington Irving authored "The legend of Sleepy Hollow."
The Romantic writers valued reason over feeling and emotion.
The following tale of terror uses psychological abnormality to heighten terror:
“The Fall of the House of Usher”
This character can be interpreted as an autobiographical representation of Herman Melville.
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