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13 Cards in this Set
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Walt Whitman
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Wrote "Leaves of Grass." "Song of Myself" appears in this collection.
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I ________________ myself and _____________ myself.
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celebrate; sing
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Nature" , "Self-Reliance" ,
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Henry David Thoreau
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"Resistance to Civil Government", "Walden, or Life in the Woods"
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Emily Dickinson
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Lived at home. She was considered a hermit during the later part of her life.
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"Leaves of Grass" publication dates:
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1855, 1856, 1860, 1867, 1871, 1881
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The last edition of Leaves of Grass is known as the __________________
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Deathbed edition.
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Dickinson's poetry....
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complex lyrics, extraordinary vocabulary, slant rhymes, unusual punctuation and metrical usage.
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Whitman pioneered the use of......
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Free verse poetry!
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Dickinson lived most of her life in ___________
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Amherst, Massachusetts
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Ralph Emerson owned ________ woods where Thoreau stayed
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Walden
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Thoreau stayed at ______________________ land.
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Emerson's
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Thoreau wrote about his __________ year, ___________ month, and _____________ day stay at Walden.
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2 ; 2 ; 2
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