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Literature
11th Grade
06/07/2012

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Johnson
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painted Native Americans, union troops and rural life
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Emerson
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founder of transcendentalism
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Thoreau
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follower of emerson
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Homer
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most versatile, vigorous, and colorful 19th century american painter
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Foster
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beloved popular song composer
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Moody
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One of greatest revivalists in history
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Crosby
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America's most beloved hymn writer of the 19th century , wrote over 8000 hymns and moe than a thousand secular poems
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Edwards
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colonial america's most famous preacher
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Finney
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most powerful voice in his day against deadening effects of unitarianism and transcendentalism, greatest american revivalist of the early 19th century
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Lee
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classic sermon payday someday
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Dickinson
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native of new england, wrote short untitled poems, usually after employing a four line stanza
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harte
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first prose writer after the civil war to gain popularity with his famous stories of the west
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Dunbar
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probably first black poet to use black dialect in poems and novels
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cummings
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strong sense of individuality which was translated into poetry
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nash
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America's most popular writer of free verse
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Thurbewr
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one of america's best known humorists
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Fitzgerald
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wrote short stories and novels about the pleasure seeking generation of the roaring twenties
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Hemingway
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novelist of despair who dwelt on the aimlessness and disillusionment of the people who had lost their faith and reason 4 living
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Jack Finney
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short story writer and novelist from the midwest who worked in a new york advertising agency until he established himself as a writer
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Bradbury
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prize winning novelist and writer of short stories and screenplays. known for science fiction and tales of fantasy, stories reveal distrust of technology and machinery.
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