Authors 1semester Flashcards
(27 cards)
Five I’s
Imagination Intuition Idealism Inspiration Individuality
Who were the fireside Poets?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow William Cullen Bryant James Russell Lowell Oliver Wendell Holmes John Greenleaf Whittier
Song of Hiawatha
Paul Reveres Ride
Evangeline
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow composed these
Translated Dante’s Inferno from Italian to English
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Medical Doctor invented the term “anesthesia”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Composed “Old Iron sides.” And saved the U.S.S Constitution from the scrapyard
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Wrote the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Father of American Poetry
William Cullen Bryant
Began to write poetry at age 9
William Cullen Bryant
Published first poem at age 10
William Cullen Bryant
Published first book at age 13
William Cullen Bryant
Age 19 wrote “Thanatopsis”
William Cullen Bryant
Editor of the New York Evening Post
William Cullen Bryant
William Cullen Wrote these before he was 21
Thanatopsis
To a Waterfowl
Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood
The Yellow Violet
William Cullen Bryant’s themes and techniques
Death and Nature
Blank Verse and Iambic Pentameter
One of the founders of the Republican Party
William Cullen Bryant
Candidate for President
William Cullen Bryant
Banned from Harvard for 40 years
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Had a mentally disabled brother
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Son died at age five of scarlet fever
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Known as the Father of transcendentalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Famous for Walden and Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
Mother was interested in social reform, and nature which helped shade His style
Henry David Thoreau
Internationally acclaimed as a classic of world literature
Henry David Thoreau
