LITERATURE
Who was John Woolrnan? 1093, 1570.
Who wrote The American Flag and The Culprit Fayf 790.
Who was the first American writer to write works read for their
real worth, instead of for the men and times described?
943-4.
When was American literature of real worth first produced? 1093. Who was the first American novelist of any note? 450. What were The Leather Stocking Tales? 1043. What beautiful songs, sung in every household, were written at this
time? 1094, 883, 1432.
Who was the greatest English-speaking orator? 2062. Who were the leaders of what was known as transcendentalism?
1094.
What was The Dial? 1094.
Who was the great essayist of this period? 612. Who was the poetic prose-writer about nature? 1906. Who is the greatest American novelist, and what is his most famous
production? 851, 1168.
What books for children did he write? 1098. What are Longfellow's principal poems? 1094.
What college was a center of American literature at this time? 1094. What famous poet was identified with Cambridge for over fifty years?
1112.
Why is he the most widely read poet of America? 1094. What first gained Oliver Wendell Holmes notice? 1094. What work made him known to the whole world? 1094. What is the character of most of his poetry? 1094. Who is our greatest critic, as well as one of our leading poets? 1121. What is considered the finest modern satire? 1094. Who of our leading historians was almost blind? 1544. Who has written the best history of the U. S.? 165, 678, 1095. Who are our leading historians, and what are their principal works?
1094, 1095.
Who were the leading orators of the antislavery cause? 1471, 1847. Who wrote Thanatopsis? 280. What was the theme of his best works? 1095. Who was the Quaker poet? 2081. What were his most popular works? 1095. Who wrote The Raven f 1509.
What other popular works has this author written? 1095. What American belongs in the same class with Aristophanes and
Rabelais as one of the world's colossal laughers? 408. What translation is considered one of the glories of American
literature? 1875, 1876.
What did Thomas-B. Read write? 1095, 1589. Who wrote a noble ode that glorifies Lincoln? 2080. What book roused America against slavery, and has been translated
into over forty languages? 1095, 1834, 1835. Who are our humorists? 1735, 1829, 2041, 276. Who wrote The Luck of Roaring Camp? 845. Who wrote The Hoosier Schoolmaster? 589. Who was Ik Marvel? 1242.
Who wrote The Battle Cry of the Republic? 892. What plain-people's man made an immortal speech? 1074-5. Whose early death robbed the south of a great poet? 1095. What form of literature has dominated the new era? 1096. In what guise has history appeared? 1096.
Who are the more prominent of the historical romanticists? 1096. What environment does James Lane Allen use in his writings? 52. What characterizes the work of Henry James? 958, 1097. What style of writer is William Dean Howells? 892, 1097. Who is famous for his Creole sketches? 300. Who was the editor of The Library of the World's Best Literature?
2042.
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