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ENG 201 Final
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Accounting
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12/08/2010

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Name the Fireside Poets
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell
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What set the Fireside poets apart?
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They were 1st group to rival British poets in popularity, preferred conventional forms to innovation, they were Victorian in tone and form
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Song of Hiawatha written by...
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The Chambered Nautilus written by
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The First Snowfall written by
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James Russell Lowell
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Barbara Frietchie written by
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John Greenleaf Whittier
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this poet from Amherst, Mass. never married
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Emily Dickinson
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reflected the inward Calvinist Contradictions of sin v grace, public v private, anxiety-ridden thoughts
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Dickinson
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Dickinson reflected the emotions and tensions of what place?
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small-town New England
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Describe Dickinson's style
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irregular rhythms, paradoxes, dashes, halting meter
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nicknamed "The American Bard"
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Walt Whitman
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wrote Leaves of Grass
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Whitman
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Whitman combined traditional and avant-garde style in his poetry. what about it was traditional?
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elevated, romantic; sweeping language; patriotic; emotional; natural
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Whitman combined traditional and avant-garde style in his poetry. what about it was avant-garde?
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it was homoerotic; foul language; personal experience; free-verse
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Which poet was a transcendentalist?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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who wrote The Rhodora?
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Emerson (wait, was that a rhetorical, Rhodorical question?)
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wrote Hamatreya
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Emerson
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wrote The Courtship of Miles Standish
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Longfellow
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antislavery crusader who wrote The Hunters of Men
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Whittier
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wrote The Raven and Annabel Lee
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Poe
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who wrote When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
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Walt Whitman
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When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd is an elegy to whom?
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Lincoln
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wrote the words to battle hymn of the republic
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Julia Howe
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Classify Macbeth
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Classic Drama
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