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| A movement in the nineteenth-century American Literature and thought. It asked people to view the objects in the worlds as small versions of the whole universe and to trust their individual intuitions. |
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| A novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe; it paints a grim picture of life under slavery with the main character's eventually beating to death. |
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| A twentieth-century American author who spurned the use of many conventions of standard written English in his poetry. He often avoided using capital letters, even in his name, and experimented freely with typographic conventions, grammar, and syntax. |
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| A nineteenth-century American poet, famous for her short, evocative poems. |
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| A nineteenth-century American lecturer and author; a leader of transcendentalsim. He stressed the importance of the individual and encouraged people to rely on their own judgment. |
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| The theater in London where many of the great plays of William Shakespeare were first performed. |
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| A nineteenth-century American author known for his novels and short stories that explore themes of sin and guilt. |
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| An epic by John Milton. Its subject is the fall of man; it also tells the stories of the rebellion and punishment of Satan and the creation of Adam and Eve. |
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| A story by Washington Irving. The main character goes to sleep after a game of bowling and much drinking in the mountains with a band of dwarves. He awakens twenty years later, an old man. Back home, Rip finds that all has changed: his wife is dead, his daughter is married, and the American Revolutionary War has taken place. |
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| A Pulitzer Prize winning play by Tennessee Williams about the decline and tragic end of Blanche DuBois, a southern belle who, as she puts it, has "always depended on the kindness of strangers". |
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