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English CSET: American Authors and Poets

English Cset: American Authors And Poets

by AddieV77, Apr. 2013

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	John Smith	author American Colonist 1580 - 1631 founder of Jamestown wrote about the settler's life and mindset _The General History of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles_
	William Bradford	author American Colonist 1590 - 1657 writes about historical realities and moral tones writes with a plain style, common in Puritan writing _Of Plymouth Plantation_
	Anne Bradstreet	poet American Colonist 1612 - 1672 poetry is about the simple Puritan life writings give insight into moral and religious priorities "To My Dear and Loving Husband"
	Jonathan Edwards	minister American Colonist 1703 - 1758 part of The Great Awakening sermons are fiery depictions of an eternal damnation if God's forgiveness is not accepted "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
	Edward Taylor	poet American Colonist 1642 - 1729 writings give insight into the spiritual beliefs of the Puritan settlers more metaphorical than Bradstreet's, dealing with ethereal concepts "Huswifery"
	William Byrd	surveyor American Colonist 1674 - 1744 born in Virginia British aristocrat writings contain observations about colonial life _History of the Dividing Line_
	Ben Franklin	author, etc American Revolutionary 1706 - 1790 the aphorisms in _Poor Richard's Almanac_ are frequently used as writing prompts _Autobiography of Ben Franklin_ _Poor Richard's Almanac_ (contributions)
	Patrick Henry	politician American Revolutionary 1736 - 1799 wrote the words "give me liberty or give me death" writings give insight into colonial politics works are used as rhetoric primers "Speech to the Virginia Convention"
	Thomas Paine	author American Revolutionary 1737 - 1809 "these are the times that try men's souls" comes from _The Crisis, No. 1_ thoughts on deism were controversial _Common Sense_ _The Crisis, No. 1_
	Phyllis Wheatley	poet American Revolutionary 1753? - 1784 the first African-American poet in North America used elevated diction and syntax a slave educated by her owners
	Thomas Jefferson	president American Revolutionary 1743 - 1826 _The Declaration of Independence_
	Washington Irving	author American Pre-Romantic 1783 - 1859 wrote narratives based on European folklore, set in America was America's "first international literary celebrity" _Legend of Sleepy Hollow_ _Rip Van Winkle_
	William Cullen Bryant	poet American Pre-Romantic 1794 - 1878 influenced by English poetry of the time works were often spiritual meditations some call him the "father of American poetry" "Thanatopsis" -- meditation on death
	Nathaniel Hawthorne	author American Romantic 1804 - 1864 _The Scarlet Letter_ was a protest against a growing transcendental movement, and is considered to be the first fully American novel _The Scarlet Letter_ _House of Seven Gables_ _The Minister's Black Veil_
	Edgar Allen Poe	author and poet American Romantic 1809 - 1849 wrote works of terror and the supernatural used poetic conventions expertly _The Fall of the House of Usher_ _The Tell-Tale Heart_ "The Raven" "Annabelle Lee"
	Herman Melville	author American Romantic 1819 - 1891 _Moby Dick_ is a metaphoric battle to discover the nature of man _Moby Dick_ _Billy Budd_
	Oliver Wendell Holmes	poet American New Poet 1809 - 1894 also a physician founded the Atlantic Monthly one of the Fireside Poets "Old Ironsides" "The Chambered Nautilus"
	James Russell Lowell	essayist and poet American New Poet 1819 - 1891 devoted much time to popular causes at the time of the Civil War one of the Fireside Poets "Stanzas on Freedom"
	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	poet American New Poet 1807 - 1882 first American poet to be honored in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey one of the Fireside Poets "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls"
	John Greenleaf Whittier	poet and politician American New Poet 1807 - 1892 campaigned for abolition one of the Fireside Poets "Snow-bound"
	Ralph Waldo Emerson	essayist American New Poet 1803 - 1882 wrote about the relationship between man and nature transcendentalist _Nature_ _Self Reliance_
	Henry David Thoreau	essayist American New Poet 1817 - 1862 sought truth in nature felt that land and nature contained keys to (American) man's existence _Walden_ _Resistance to Civil Government_
	Emily Dickinson	poet American New Poet 1830 - 1886 a recluse in life poetry lacked many contemporary conventions discovery of her poetry coincided with the "new American poetry" of the last half of the 19th century "I heard a Fly buzz-- when I died" "I taste a liquor never brewed" "Because I could not stop for Death"
	Walt Whitman	poet American New Poet 1819 - 1892 ignored conventional poetic styles, which set the stage for a poetry revolution _Leaves of Grass_ "I Hear America Singing" "Song of Myself"
	Abraham Lincoln	president American Voice 1809 - 1865 "Gettysburg Address" is studied for its imagery and rhetoric "Gettysburg Address"
	Frederick Douglass	author American Voice works gave insight into the lives of those living under slavery eventually declared a free man fought for abolition through a newspaper he published _The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass_
	Stephen Crane	poet and author American Realist 1871 - 1900 influenced American Naturalism _The Red Badge of Courage_ "A Man said to the Universe"
	Jack London	author American Realist 1876 - 1916 writer of adventure fiction _The Call of the Wild_ _The Sea Wolf_
	Mark Twain	author and essayist American Realist 1835 - 1910 works were humorous, contained with observations about manners, and were filled with local color also wrote about morality _The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_ _Life on the Mississippi_ _A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court_ _The Prince and the Pauper_
	Bret Harte	poet American Realist 1836 - 1902 works spotlight the local color of the Old West "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" "The Luck of Roaring Camp"
	Kate Chopin	author American Realist 1851 - 1904 wrote short stories that depict the French Creole lifestyle _The Awakening_ is about the rights of women to chart their own course in life _The Awakening_
	Chief Joseph	humanitarian and peacemaker American Realist 1840 - 1904 champion for the rights of the Nez Perce people his "I will Fight No More Forever" is a reflection of the many promises made to native Americans during the late 1800's and later broken "I Will Fight No More Forever"
	Ambrose Bierce	author American Realist 1842 - 1914 wrote about the effects of war and violence _An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge_
	Edgar Lee Masters	poet American Modernist 1868 - 1950 the _Spoon River Anthology_ are epitaphs from the fictitious citizens of the Midwestern town of Spoon River _Spoon River Anthology_ "Lucinda Matlock" "Fiddler Jones"
	Edward Arlington Robinson	poet American Modernist 1869 - 1935 used traditional poetic forms to express modern themes and narratives "Richard Cory" "Miniver Cheevy"
	Carl Sandberg	poet American Modernist 1878 - 1967 wrote about Chicago wrote a non-fiction biography of Abraham Lincoln "Chicago" "Fog"
	Robert Frost	poet American Modernist 1874 - 1963 poems focus on farm and nature themes with underlying moral implications had a mastery of poetic conventions "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" "The Death of the Hired Man" "After Apple-Picking" "The Mending Wall"
	William Carlos Williams	poet American Modernist distinctively sparse style focused on common subjects "The Red Wheelbarrow"
	Ezra Pound	poet American Modernist 1885 - 1972 champion for the poetic school of Imagism "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter"
	T. S. Elliot	poet American Modernist 1888 - 1965 used classic poetic conventions to deal with modern themes like the emptiness of life American-born, later a citizen of Britain "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" "The Waste Land"
	Archibald MacLeish	poet American Modernist 1892 - 1982 "Ars Poetica" is about the art of poetry "Ars Poetica"
	e. e. cummings	poet American Modernist 1894 - 1962 known for his experiments in typography and syntax "anyone lived in a pretty how town"
	Langston Hughes	poet American Modernist 1902 - 1967 focused on the experiences of African-Americans poetry is known for its innovative use of rhythm and departure from poetic conventions part of the Harlem Renaissance "Harlem"
	Edna St. Vincent Millay	poet American Modernist 1892 - 1950 outspoken on issues involving women's roles and free living "Recuerdo"
	Randall Jarrell	poet American Modernist 1914 - 1965 wrote poems about World War II "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"
	Karl Shapiro	poet American Contemporary 1913 - 2000 winner of the Pulitzer Prize used everyday language sought raw emotions "Auto Wreck"
	Wallace Stevens	poet American Contemporary 1879 - 1955 combined experimental imagism with everyday narrative was an insurance executive "Anecdote of the Jar"
	Anne Sexton	poet American Contemporary 1928 - 1974 plagued by depression won the Pulitzer Prize poetry was intensely personal "The Starry Night" "The Bells"
	Nikki Giovanni	poet American Contemporary 1943 - a new voice in African-American poetry (in the late 1960's) "Winter Poem"
	Gwendolyn Brooks	poet American Contemporary 1917 - 2000 first African-American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for poetry her works include snapshots of life in her childhood home of Chicago
	Willa Cather	author American Modernist 1873 - 1947 wrote portraits of life on the Midwestern prairie _My Antonia_ _O Pioneers!_
	Thomas Wolfe	author American Modernist experimented with fiction, but his work was very autobiographical _Look Homeward Angel_ _You Can't Go Home Again_
	Katherine Anne Porter	author American Modernist 1890 - 1980 work dealt with women and their relationship to historical periods or events _The Jilting of Granny Weatherall_ _Ship of Fools_
	Ernest Hemingway	author American Modernist 1899 - 1961 wrote adventurous stories with distinctive, manly heroes had simple diction and syntax _The Old Man and the Sea_ _A Farewell to Arms_ _The Sun Also Rises_ _For Whom the Bell Tolls_
	Sinclair Lewis	author American Modernist 1885 - 1951 first American to win a Nobel Prize for literature focuses on middle class Americans _Babbitt_ _Main Street_
	Theodore Drieser	author American Modernist 1871 - 1945 works reflect the popularity of Naturalism _Sister Carrie_ _An American Tragedy_
	John Steinbeck	author American Modernist 1902 - 1968 best known for his portrayals of migrant workers won Nobel prize for the autobiographical _Travels with Charley_ _Grapes of Wrath_ _Of Mice and Men_ _The Pearl_ _Travels with Charley_
	F. Scott Fitzgerald	author American Modernist 1896 - 1940 fiction of the Jazz Age _Winter Dreams_ _The Great Gatsby_ _Tender is the Night_ _This Side of Paradise_
	Eudora Welty	author American Modernist 1909 - 2001 focused on the rural South known for accuracy of colloquial speech _A Worn Path_ _Why I Live at the P.O._
	Tennessee Williams	dramatist American Modernist 1911 - 1983 often set in the antebellum South or in an urban environment _Cat on a Hot Tin Roof_ _The Glass Menagerie_ _A Streetcar Named Desire_
	Arthur Miller	dramatist American Modernist 1915 - 2005 works examine the search for values in American life husband of Marilyn Monroe _Death of a Salesman_ _The Crucible_
	William Faulkner	author American Modernist 1897 - 1962 work is distinctive for its complex sentences and high-focus view of life in the South _The Sound and the Fury_ _As I Lay Dying_ _Absalom, Absalom_ _Light in August_ _A Rose for Emily_ _The Bear_
	James Thurber	author American Contemporary 1894 - 1961 wrote humorous stories, essays and cartoons _The Secret Life of Walter Mitty_
	Flannery O'Conner	author American Contemporary 1925 - 1964 wrote about the rural South religious themes are pervasive _Everything That Rises Must Converge_ _The Life You Save May Be Your Own_
	Alice Walker	author American Contemporary 1944 - works often deal with the struggles of African-American women _The Color Purple_
	Amy Tan	author American Contemporary 1952 works deal with the relationships among Chinese-Americans _The Joy Luck Club_ _The Kitchen God's Wife_
	Bernard Malamud	author American Contemporary 1914 - 1986 wrote about the everyday life of Jews in America _The Natural_ -- about baseball
	John Updike	author American Contemporary 1932 - 2009 wrote the four-novel "Rabbit" series about Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom reflected on American sociology _Rabbit, Run_ _Rabbit Redux_ _Rabbit is Rich_ _Rabbit at Rest_ _Rabbit Remembered_
	Sylvia Plath	author American Contemporary 1932 - 1963 _The Bell Jar_ is about depression and attempted suicide _The Bell Jar_
	J. D. Salinger	author American Contemporary 1919 - _The Catcher in the Rye_ is about a teenager's adventure in examining middle-class values. it is still widely read and widely banned _The Catcher in the Rye_
	Sandra Cisneros	author American Contemporary 1954 - _The House on Mango Street_ -- a novel of a young Latina written in a unique blend of English and Spanish
	Richard Wright	author American Contemporary 1908 - 1960 one of the first authors to bring a hard look at American racism to a large white audience _Black Boy_ _Native Son_
	Toni Morrison	author American Contemporary 1931 - won the Pulitzer Prize for _Beloved_ has "epic power, unerring ear for dialogue, and poetically-charged and richly-expressive depictions of Black America" _Beloved_
	John Dos Passos	biographer American Contemporary 1896 - 1970 "newsreel" writing style _U.S.A._
	E. B. White	author American Contemporary 1899 - 1985 frequently contributed to _The New Yorker_ the White of _Strunk and White_ _Charlotte's Web_ _Stuart Little_
	John F. Kennedy	president American Contemporary 1917 - 1963 "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" from his 1960 inaugural address _Profiles in Courage_ -- stories about eight brave politicians
	The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	activist American Contemporary 1929 - 1968 the use of imagery and repetition in "I Have a Dream" is often studied "I Have a Dream"
	Elie Wiesel	activist American Contemporary 1928 - born in Hungary survived the Holocaust became an American citizen in 1963 _Night_
	John Hersey	journalist American Contemporary 1914 - 1993 _Hiroshima_ -- combined a narrative sense and a reporter's eye for detail

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