Authors
What group did William Cullen Bryant help found?
The Republican Party
According to the poem, Paul Revere rode from _____________ to _____________
Boston to Concord
Romantics found inspiration in what genres?
Myth, Legend, and folklore
What genre did the Romantics feel to be the highest form of expression?
Poetry
What was the theme of "The Chambered Nautilus?"
We should go through life trying to keep growing and not worry about the past.
Who is known as the "Father of American Poetry?"
William Cullen Bryant
Whose idea was Central Park
William Cullen Bryant
Romantics valued ________________ over reason.
Intuition
The American journey was the quest for ___________
opportunity
What was the name AND nickname of the ship that Holmes saved?
USS Constitution or "Old Ironsides"
Name 3 pen names of Washington Irving
Dedrich Knickerbocker
Jonathan Oldstyle
Geoffrey Crayon
Where was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow the first to be honored?
Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey
Romanticism was a reaction against ______________.
Rationalism
What did Oliver Wendell Holmes hear when he listened to the human heart?
poetic meter
View of Death
Name two novels by James Fenimore Cooper
The Deer Slayer, The Last of the Mohicans
What was the setting for the new American novels
frontier
What are the 2 main paths of the Romantics?
Love of Nature and gothic, supernatural, imagination
Describe the American Romantic hero.
skillful frontiersman, very resourceful, distrusts city life and prefers innocence over sophistication
Name 3 poems written by Longfellow
"Paul Revere's Ride," The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls, "Christmas Bells," and "Psalm of Life"
Who wrote the literary work which inspired American Romantics?
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Where was the literary work which inspired American Romantics published?
England
American Romanticism can best be described as a __________________ away from the corruption of _____________ and limits of ______________ toward the integrity of ______________ and freedom of the ________________.
journey, civilization, rational thought, nature, imagination
What literary work influenced American Romantics
Lyrical Ballads
Who were the "Fireside Poets" and why were they so called?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, and James Russell Lowell