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15 Cards in this Set
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William Bradford
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(1590-1657)
helped lead pilgrims to massachusets provides account of of early puritan settlers puritan wrote: of plymouth plantation gov. 30 times |
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Olaudah Equiano
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(1745-1797)
the interestinf life of olaudah equiano showed cruelities of slavers, autobiography renamed gustavus vassa |
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Jonathan Edwards
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(1703-1758)
puritain preacher wrote many essays "of insects" went to yale at 13 one of the leaders of the great awakening "sinners in the hands of an angry god" |
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Anne Bradstreet
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(1612-1672)
lived in massachusets bay colony. her brother in 1650, published her poems "america's first poet" "to my dear and loving husband" |
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Ben Franklyn
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poor richard's almanac = aphorisms
"the autobiography" rationalist |
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Washington Irving
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named after george washington
wrote satirical essays "the davil and tom walker, tales of a traveler, legend of sleepy hollow, rip van winkle ROMANTIC |
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Romanticism
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imagination over reason, intuition over fact.
nature fantastic aspects of human experience. |
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transcendentalism
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emerson, thoreau.
nature and the human mind holds real truths lie outside the experience of the senses.questioned society, and materialism, |
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Cullen Bryant
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"thanatopsis"
editor and chief of evening post didn't want industrialization to obscure america's democratic values ROMANTIC |
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Hawthorne
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"scarlett letter" sin & evil.
Romantic inhereted guilt from salem witch trials. |
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David Thoreau
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emerson's protege
transdentalist lived alone in woods at walden pond walden essays |
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Walt Whitman
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romantic
"leaves of grass" |
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emily dickinson
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one of the greatest amercian poets.
wrote about death and religion transcendentalist |
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rationalism
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reason over religion. intuition and science valued. universe is orderly and good.
(henry, franklyn, paine) |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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transendentalist
"from Nature" "self Reliance" "the Snowstorm" |
