Authors Flashcards
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Bryant
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1794- 1878 STRICT CALVINIST "The Embargo" "The waterfowl" -anti slavery -republican part -god "guides me on my path"
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Bradford
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"Of Plymouth Plantation" --historical documentation Leader of the Pilgrims -separatist -governor
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Dickinson
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- “I dwell in possibility”
- hermit (stay in house)
- nature = people in her life
- lost 29 close people in 33 months
- random dashes and capitalizations
- Atlantic Monthly
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Emerson
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- education, culture
- dad dies at age 8
- -raised by aunt (transcendentalist)
- minister
- idealist
- -“the god within”
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Franklin
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Worked with bro as a printer
1733- Poor Richard's Almanac
-PN Gazette
-observed and published electricity findings
-reps the colonies
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Hawthorne
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Born in Salem MA.
- -great grandfather = judge in Salem Witch Trails
- -felt guilt and shame
- raised by Mother
- worked at Salem Custom house
- -mother died
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Melville
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- abandoned by father, worked on a ship
- school teacher
- joined whaling vessel (Acushnet)
- southern islands (canibals)
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Poe
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- loved ones die of tuberculoses
- -mom at age 2
- -cousin/ wife
- sad life
- -gambling debt
- -not much $
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Taylor
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- Huswifery (god= thread, holly spirt= weaving
- minister, physician, public servant
- 14 kids
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Thoreau
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"Walden" "Civil disobedience" --simple life (protest Mex war) -freedom! -inspired by Emerson -transcendentalist
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Twain
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AKA Sam Clemons
- liked black people
- respected women (father died)
- worked on a river boat
- -pilot “best time of his life”
- brief confederate military
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Wheatley
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ON Imagrstion
Religious and moral poems
-black from Africa
-thought to read and write by owner
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Whitman
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"O Captain! My Captain!" Many war related poems -death -church *bridge between transcendental and realism***
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Winthrop
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-1st Bay Colony journal entry
Non separatist
-MA bay colony
-“model of Christian charity”
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Bradstreet
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- “verses upon the burning input house”
- pilgrim and poet
- good education
- sick a lot
- Puritan (believed in god because of people’s works)
