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Who is the first African American woman known to have authored a slave narrative in the United States?

Walt Whitman was considered a religious poet.

In NO LESS than 100 words, offer an analysis of any one of Emily Dickinson’s poems assigned in the class. Be sure to use specific references from the poem to support any ideas you present.

Poe is considered the father of the detective story.

In her poems, Dickinson frequently examines the relationship between events of everyday life and the things of the

About whom was this quote made in a New York Times publication? “Here was a most remarkable woman, one who lived a great life, but lived it so simply and with such limited consideration for herself that the more you study it the more it grows to be perhaps the truest life that an American woman has yet lived.”

According to F. O. Matthiessen, the “Renaisssance” of American Literature was inspired when and by which four authors of which four works? 

The devil in Young Goodman Brown was remarkable for what one thing?

Identify all of the following characteristics which relate to Romanticism. (You must correctly identify all characteristics in order to receive any credit.)

The first American writer to be honored in the poet’s corner in Westminister Abbey was