Review of Romanticism

This author was an early Transcendentalist who wrote the famous essays "Nature" and "Self-Reliance."

• William Cullen Bryant

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Henry David Thoreau

• Walt Whitman

Central Park was his brainchild because he saw a need to combine countryside with the city.

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Washington Irving

• William Cullen Bryant

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He is known as the father of the Mystery genre.

• William Cullen Bryant

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Washington Irving

• Nathaniel Hawthorne

This author was influenced by earlier relatives, Puritans in Salem; one even participated as a judge in the witch trials

• William Cullen Bryant

• Henry David Thoreau

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Nathaniel Hawthorne

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He believed man could not escape the darkness of the city, so he needed to escape into his own imagination.

• Edgar Allan Poe

• William Cullen Bryant

• Walt Whitman

• Henry David Thoreau

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He was Emerson's student, living at Emerson's Walden for two years.

• William Cullen Bryant

• Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Henry David Thoreau

• Walt Whitman

The Romantic Period could be divided into which two categories.

• Realist

• Colonialists

• Gothic

• Transcendentalists

• Puritans

This author lived alone in the woods at Walden, refusing to pay his taxes.

• Henry David Thoreau

• William Cullen Bryant

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Edgar Allan Poe

This author wrote "Rip Van Winkle" and was known as the first popular writer in America.

• William Cullen Bryant

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Washington Irving

• Herman Melville

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How was Virginia Clem related to Edgar Allan Poe?

• She was his 13 year-old wife and cousin.

• She was Poe's girlfriend who died of tuberculosis before they could marry.

• She was his birth mother who died soon after Poe was born.

• She was Poe's foster mother.

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