American Romanticism & Thanatopsis review

The romantics associated the countryside with independence, moral clarity, and

• expansive freedom

• self realization

• healthful living

• environmental stability

All of the following are characteristics of American Romanticism except for

• Values feeling and intuition over reason

• Prefers youthful innocence to educated sophistication

• Champions individual freedom and the worth of the individual

• believed the city to be a place to find success

Romantics felt that the exploration of the past, the exotic, the supernatural, could lead to

• understanding higher truths

• stylistic evolution

• innovative new writing genres

• rises in popularity for writers

One of the authors associated with the popularity of American Novels was

• James Fenimore Cooper

• William Cullen Bryant

• James Greenleaf Whittier

• T. S. Eliot

This time period is often called a "renaissance"--but a more accurate description would be

• an introduction to literary collaboration

• a coming of age

• an overly emotional outpouring

• a reinvention of classic forms

Unlike the American novelists of the time period, the Fireside poets:

• explored the use of supernatural themes and subject matter

• championed new literary forms

• expressed doubts about America's future

• worked within European literary traditions

The Fireside Poets were: John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendel Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and:

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• T.S. Eliot

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• James Fenimore Cooper

The 2 writers mainly associated with Transcendentalism were:

• Whittier and Longfellow

• Cooper and Melville

• Emerson and Thoreau

• Poe and Holmes

Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville were considered

• Anit-Transcendentalists

• Transcendentalists

• Fireside Poets

• Southern Aggrarians

The two poets considered to be the greatest American poets of the 19th century

• Longfellow and Whitman

• Bryant and Whitman

• Longfellow and Dickinson

• Whitman and Dickinson