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Writers through 19th
Writers through the 19th century
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Slave who wrote poetry | Phillis Wheatley |
| New York author best known for his stories "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" which appeared in Sketch Book | Washington Irving |
| Famous preacher during the First Great Awakening; advocated having a personal faith and relationship with Jesus Christ to gain salvation; most famous sermon is Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God | Jonathan Edwards |
| Examined the psychological and moral effects of adultery in The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| America's first major novelist, he idealized both American life and Native Americans in books such as The Deerslayer and The Last of the Mohicans which showed the conflict between the customs of primitive life on the frontier and the advance of civilizati | James Fenimore Cooper |
| Brilliant writer of fiction and poetry who explored mystery and emotions in stories such as "Murders in the Rue Morgue" and in poems such as "The Raven." | Edgar Allen Poe |
| Wrote his autobiography; published Poor Richard's Almanack; felt to epitomize the Enlightenment | Benjamin Franklin |
| Free black man who published An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in 1829 | David Walker |
| Novelist, newspaperman, and essayist best remembered for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| One of the first important poets to use American subject matter in his narrative poems such as Evangeline and The Song of Hiawatha | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Philosopher and psychologist; founder of the philosophy of pragmatism | William James |
| An American expatriate who wrote novels such as The Portrait of a Lady and The Bostonians to contrast the innocence of Americans with the cynicism of Europeans | Henry James |
| Abolitionist writer who wrote novels attacking slavery before and after the Civil War; most famous for Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Puritan housewife who became a poet; first woman to be published in colonial America | Anne Bradstreet |
| This poet broke the conventions of rhyme and meter to bring new vitality to poetry; wrote in free verse and was one of the first to write about sexuality at a time when it was regarded as taboo; his masterpiece was Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman |
| Leader of the Transcendentalist movement, stressing the mysticism of nature; wrote essays and poems | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Famous for his depiction of a solitary life in harmony with nature in Walden; his essay "Civil Disobedience" influenced Gandhi and Martin Luther King | Henry David Thoreau |
| Wrote about good and evil and best remembered for Moby Dick | Herman Melville |
| Author of juvenile fiction on the theme of rags to riches; his most famous work was Ragged Dick | Horatio Alger |
| Gathered information regarding American Indians and their lives and published her findings in A Century of Dishonor | Helen Hunt Jackson |
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