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This poet and physician became Dean of the Harvard Medical School and was the father of a noted Supreme Court justice.  In addition to his poetry, he was famed also for his “Breakfast-Table” series of humorous essays in The Atlantic Monthly. Who was he?

Generally speaking, what is the poem “Thanatopsis” about?

This Unitarian nature poet was an attorney but gave up his practice of law to become editor and owner of The Evening Post. An abolitionist, he was one of the founders of the Republican Party.  Name this man, who wrote “To A Waterfowl.”

What schoolteacher character had read “several books,” including Cotton Mather’s book on New England witchcraft, all the way through?

The Phi Beta Kappa journal is named after this speech by Emerson that urged a distinctly American literature and scholarship.  What is the title of this speech, later published as an essay, that Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. called “the intellectual Declaration of Independence”?

What does the young man traveling up the Alps have written on his banner?  He says the word, which means roughly “Ever higher,” every time someone urges him to turn back, and a St. Bernard rescue dog finds the banner still clutched in his frozen hand.

What character races pell-mell past a church and across a bridge on a horse named Gunpowder?

What writer resigned his position as a Unitarian minister, wrote Transcendentalist essays such as “Nature,” and worked the lecture circuit?

With Margaret Fuller, what writer founded The Dial, the first “little magazine,” in 1840, which featured Transcendentalist writers?

Which poet roughly falls into the pre-Romantic group of poets termed “The Graveyard School,” who wrote like the Englishman Thomas Grey?