This poet praised God and chastised himself/herself for desiring worldly possessions.  

After being captured, this author wrote a narrative describing his/her time spent with the Native American captors.  

This Africa native born was captured by his/her own people and sold into slavery.  

This Romantic Transcendentalists wrote of the beauty of Nature and man's command to commune with nature as a means of self awareness and independence.  

This poet's shorter poems reflected on loss and grief and man's call to persevere in the midst of hardships. 

This poet's use of traditional English Romanticism style is demonstrated in his infamous poem "Thanatopsis;" the first widely recognized American Romantic poem.  

This poet of prose presents uniquely different ideas in his "Walden," a narrative of a sojourn in nature, and "Resistance to Civil Government," a "sojourn" to jail.  

Often exploring the darker side of human nature, this writer's life story, or rather death story, is one for the unsolved mysteries chronicles. 

In his essay "Self Reliance," this American romantic challenges each of us to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his or her own instincts and ideas.

This diplomat, inventor, and self-made man chronicled his journey to moral perfection by expounding on his plan to master 13 virtues of human nature.  

His speech to the Virginia Convention served as a catalyst to war.  

Writing and dispersing pamphlets to American troops urging them to continue the fight for freedom is this American author's claim to fame.