Eras 1
reverence for nature/Transcendentalism
Medieval
Catholicism
Medieval
"The Raven"
Poe
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
Deism/Rationalism
Restoration/Neoclassical
ornate, elevated language
Renaissance
Narrative of the Life of...An American Slave
Frederick Douglass
"The Canterbury Tales"
Geoffrey Chaucer
loyalty/Code of Comitatus
Anglo-Saxon
focus on man's intellectual progress
Victorian/Realism
Letters from an American Farmer
Crevecouer
Keats
Sola Scriptura
Puritan
dialect/local color
Victorian/Realism
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Jonathan Edwards
"Ulysses"
Tennyson
Golden Age of British Literature
Renaissance Era
Existentialism
Modern
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Animal Farm
George Orwell
disintegration/alienation of man
Modern
belief in personal God/religious writing
Puritan
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Daffodils"
Wordsworth