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Details Title: Romantic American Authors Description: Mid 1800's Total Flash Cards: 10 Created: 11/09/2003 03:59:42	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term Washington Irving Definition Wrote stories based on old Dutch Legends such as "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" "The Devil and Tom Walker". Pen Name: Diedrich Knicerbocker Term Edgar Allen Poe Definition Wrote tales of terror & horror as well as first American detective stories. "The Tell-Tale Heart" "The Purloined Letter" and many more. Term Nathaniel Hawthorne Definition Wrote many stories about Puritans. Novels: The Scarlet Letter, House of the Seven Gables. Short Stories: "Young Goodman Brown" "Dr. Heiddeger's Experiment" Term Herman Melville Definition Wrote tales of adventure based on his travels including Moby Dick, Billy Budd, and Typee. Term Henry David Thoreau Definition Transcendentalist who wrote Walden based on his year living alone at Walden Pond. Motto: "Simplify, simplify, simplify." Term Ralph Waldo Emerson Definition Transcendentalist who wrote essays such as Self-Reliance, Nature, Friends. Also wrote poetry: "Concord Hymn" Owned land where Thoreau lived to write Walden. Term Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Definition Fireside Poet who wrote "Paul Revere's Rid" "Hiawatha" "Courtship of Miles Standish" Term John Greenleaf Whittier Definition Fireside Poet who wrote "The Snowstorm" Was a Quaker. Term Oliver Wendall Holmes Definition Fireside Poet, doctor by trade. Wrote patriotic poetry such as "Old Ironsides." Term James Russell Lowell Definition Fireside Poet. Used local dialect in "The Frost is on the Punkin"