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American Lit
Term | Definition |
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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca - explorer | La Relación - Journal of early American exploration experiences. |
William Bradford - leader at Plymouth | Of Plymouth Plantation |
Anne Bradstreet - Poet | Upon the Burning of Our House To My Dear and Loving Husband |
Ben Franklin | Poor Richard's Almanac The Whistle |
Patrick Henry | Speech to the Second Virginia Convention |
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Romanticism | Self-Reliance Nature |
Henry David Thoreau - Romanticism | The Journal Walden Civil Disobedience |
Edgar Allan Poe - Dark Romanticism | The Fall of the House of Usher The Raven The Pit and the Pendulum |
Washington Irving - Dark Romanticism | The Devil and Tom Walker Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle |
Nathaniel Hawthorne - Dark Romanticism | The Minister's Black Veil The Scarlet Letter The House of Seven Gables |
Herman Melville- Dark Romanticism | Moby Dick |
Walt Whitman - Civil War Era - poet | Cavalry Crossing a Ford; Beat! Beat! Drums!; I Hear America Singing; When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer |
Emily Dickinson - Civil War Era - poet | The Lightening is a Yellow Fork; Because I could not stop for Death; If you were coming in the Fall |
Sojourner Truth - Civil War Era - poet | And Ain't I a Woman? |
Ambrose Bierce - Civil War Era | An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge; Nuggets and Dust Panned Out in California; Cobwebs from an Empty Shell |
Willa Cather - Regionalism | O Pioneers! A Wagner Matinée |
Edith Wharton - Regionalism | April Showers; Ethan Frome; The Reef; The Age of Innocence. |
Kate Chopin - Regionalism | The Awakening; The Story of an Hour |
Anton Chekhov - - Regionalism | The Darling |
Gabriela Mistral - From Chile, Pulitzer Prize Winner - poet | Richness; Sonnets of Death |
Stephen Crane | The Red Badge of Courage, The Open Boat |
Jack London | The Call of the Wild, The Sea Wolf, White Fang; To Build a Fire |
Upton Sinclair | The Jungle |