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EN 202
authors and a little about them for midterm
21
Literature
Not Applicable
10/23/2011

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works are still read for pure pleasure
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Washington Irving
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qualities: humorous, restrained sentiment
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Washington Irving
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adhered to his Puritan background
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Willliam Cullen Bryant
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"American Wordsworth"
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Willliam Cullen Bryant
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Style: reflective, descriptive, calm
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Willliam Cullen Bryant
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wrote masterpieces of action and adventure in the forest and on the sea
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James Fenimore Cooper
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he was didactic
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James Fenimore Cooper
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he held his audience capture
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James Fenimore Cooper
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he held his audience capture
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James Fenimore Cooper
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Prominent transcendalist
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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central aim was moral development
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Style: universal, condensed, didactic
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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most widely read american poet
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Style: didactic, delightful, simple
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Gave the Puritan to literature
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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a sympthetic revealer of the soul
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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style: easy, exact, flowing, simple
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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defines the american short story
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Edgar Allen Poe
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invented the detective story
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Edgar Allen Poe
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style: psychological, focused, beautiful
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Edgar Allen Poe
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tumultous writing career
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Herman Melvile
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