Gace English - American Literature

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A nature poet who used plain speech and short, traditional forms of lyrics

"Nothing Gold Can Stay"
"The Road Not Taken"

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Robert Frost
(1874-1963)

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Celebrated the boom of the 192s and the crash of the 1930s

The Great Gatsby

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F. Scott Fitzgerald
(1896-1940)

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Most dominant literary figure between the WWs

The Waste Land
Tradition and the Individual Talent

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T.S. Elliot
(1888-1965)

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A Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Old Man and the Sea
The Sun Also Rises

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Ernest Hemingway
(1899-1961)

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Committed suicide by gassing herself in kitchen

The Bell Jar
Ariel
The Colossus

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Sylvia Plath
(1932-1963)

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One of the most notable poets of the 20th C; used creativity in his poems

The Enormous Room
Tulips and Chimneys

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E.E. Cummings
(1894-1962)

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Experimented in use of stream-of-consciousness technique in his novels

The Sound and The Fury
As I Lay Dying
Absalom! Absalom!

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William Faulkner
(1897-1963)

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Influenced Hemingway and Faulkner

Windy McPherson's Son
Many Marriages
Marching Men

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Sherwood Anderson
(1876-1941)

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American novelist, essayist, playwright, and short story writer

The Jungle

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Upton Sinclair
(1878-1968)

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Considered one of the best chroniclers of pioneering life in the 20th C

My Antonia
One of Ours

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Willa Cather
(1873-1947)

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The Autobiography of Alice
B. Toklas
Tender Buttons
The Making of Americans

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Gertrude Stein
(1874-1946)

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First American to win Nobel Prize for Literature

Arrowsmith
Main Street
Babbitt

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Sinclair Lewis
(1885-1951)

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Considered foremost novelist of American Depression of the 1930s

The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
The Red Pony

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John Steinbeck
(1902-1968)

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Was internationally well-known for his depiction of ghetto life and the deprivation of war

The Red Badge of Courage
Maggie, A Girl of the Streets

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Stephen Crane
(1871-1900)

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First great national novelist

The Letherstocking series
The Last of the Mohicans

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James Fenimore Cooper
(1789-1851)

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Wrote about her 11 week captivity by Indians during an Indian massacre of 1676

The Narrative

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Mary Rowlandson
(1635-1678)

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First African-American to publish a book of fiction; first black woman poet in U.S.

To S.M., A Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works

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Phillis Wheatly
(1753-1784)

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Famous Transcendentalist who wrote about nature and truth

Nature
Self-Reliance
The Poet

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882)

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Active in abolition, women's suffrage, and temperance movement

Sketches of Southern Life

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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
(1825-1911)

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Best known American poet of the 1800s

"The Sound of Hiawatha"
"The Courtship of Miles Standish"

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807-1882)