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This author edited the Dial, a Transcendentalist journal. Her father was a lawyer and congressman, and he educated her rigorously. She became a teacher to help support her family after the death of her father. She wanted to inspire women to consider more possibilities in life than being housewives. She sought equality with men. She spent time living in Italy and had a child with an Italian nobleman, Giovanni Ossoli, whom she may have married. Along with her son and husband, she died a tragic death in a shipwreck as she was returning to the United States.

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Which poet had such a scandalous reputation (due to the content of his poems) that a friend actually wrote a pamphlet called The Good Gray Poet: A Vindication, which was designed to improve the poet’s reputation?

In the poem “My Aunt,” the aunt is sent to school so that . . .

When he was only 18, this poet was offered a job as a professor of modern languages. He made a good living writing poetry and was very popular. He experienced some personal tragedy, including the death of his wife in a fire. He is known for such poems as The Song of Hiawatha, “Paul Revere’s Ride,” and “The Village Blacksmith.” Your textbook describes him as “the most beloved American poet of the nineteenth century.” He was so popular in England that he was the first American-born poet to have his bust placed in Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey.

“The Gettysburg Address” was given on the steps of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.

John Wilkes Booth’s plot to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln was unsuccessful.

In the selection from Uncle Tom’s Cabin that you read for this course, Sam and Andy slow down Mr. Haley’s pursuit of Eliza by . . .

Which poet came from well-off family, studied medicine in Paris, was a descendant of Anne Bradstreet, served as the dean of Harvard Medical School, and had a father who was a minister?

Which of the following is a popular topic of Romantic writers?