Background
These are at least two reasons for why this era was highly optimistic.
Growth of inventions and economic prosperity
Romanticism was a reaction against this.
Literary values of the past.
These are at least three clues that 20 years has passed when Rip wakes up.
Longfellow used a trail to a waterfall as a metaphor for this.
Life
These two wars marked the beginning and end of the “era of optimism.”
These two genres “took off” during the Romantic era.
Short story and novel.
This is what Rip seeks to avoid in life.
Work
Longfellow’s sonnet to introduce The Divine Comedy pictured the book as this type of building.
Cathedral.
This is the definition of Sectionalism.
Undue concern with local issues.
These are three of the key Romantic values.
Individualism, The distant, Nature, Imagination
These are the people that Rip encounters in the mountains.
Original Dutch settlers of the Hudson River Valley, Henrick Hudson.
This is the age Bryant began writing his poem "Thanatopsis"
16
This is the term for the view of American literature that it lacked refinement and was inferior.
Cultural Provincialism
These are the three sub-groups of the Romantic movement.
Knickerbockers, Transcendentalists, New England School.
This is the setting of “Rip Van Winkle.”
Katskill Mountains.
This is the metaphorical story told in "To a Waterfowl"
The journey from life to death.
Charles Darwin introduced this theory during this era.
This is the invented person that Irving attributed his stories to.
Knickerbocker.
These are two of the main authors/poets from the Romantic period.
Bryant, Longfellow, Poe, Cooper, Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Irving.