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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

was born on February 27, 1807. He was a widely read and highly regarded poet of the nineteenth century. Longfellow was successful in both lyric and narrative poetry and later wrote incredible sonnets. He was not a poet of extremes, intense passion, or tragedy. He was gentle and optimistic and ...

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Subject Of War In The Poems Of Whitman, Crane, Longfellow, And Sandburg

When reading poetry on the subject of war, one's own feelings regarding the subject are evoked. This makes it easier to feel the words and what they say to you. Crane's selection, "War is Kind" presents a dilemma from the outset as it uses two words "war" and "kind" that are dissimilar. Crane ...

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The Poetry Of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow And John Greenleaf Whittier

When a man’s human dignity is beaten out of him, his liberty deprived and is to be perpetually subject to the will of his master at all times, he no longer has faith in himself or his abilities. He is also compelled to spend his entire labor for the benefit of another and receive in return only ...

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Mark Twain's Speeches

1906 by Mark Twain PREFACE. FROM THE PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION OF "MARK TWAIN'S SKETCHES." If I were to sell the reader a barrel of molasses, and he, instead of sweetening his substantial dinner with the same at judicious intervals, should eat the entire barrel ...

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Romantic age

Romanticism is a movement that is also referred to as the Romantic period or the Romantic era. It was used in the 18th century around the years 1750 through 1870. It was originated in Latin America and United States. When the Romantic movement got to France in the 1820’s and by this time it had ...

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Longfellows Optimism In Writin

“Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear, and with a manly heart.” This is a saying Longfellow read in Germany where his wife died. The words gave him hope for the future. It ...

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Paul Revere

By: a_coolguy56@yahoo.com by angel mendoza was an American patriot who, in 1775, carried news to Lexington of the approach of the British. He warned the patriot leaders, Samuel Adams and Johh Hancock of their danger and called the citizens of the countryside to arms. This was the inspirations ...

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Natty Bumpoo/Hawkeye Pierce

Unit 3 Essay: Longfellow & Cooper Longfellow's use of the landscape created beauty and freedom within the dream of the slave as he passed away; escaping his pain and capture. Cooper used the top of the mountain with the beauty of a panoramic view of all the land around to be the highest point ...

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Literary Elements

The Devil and Tom Walker Tom Walker is a man who loves and cherishes money more so than his wife. One day, he ends up talking a walk in a swamp and starts a conversation with the Devil, who in the story is referred to as “Old Scratch.” The devil ends up striking a deal with Tom Walker. Old ...

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Early National Literature

The years from the adoption of the Constitution (1787) to the period of Jacksonian nationalism (1828-36) mark the emergence of a self-consciously national literature. The poet Joel BARLOW, who was, like John Trumbull, one of the Connecticut Wits, greeted the new United States with his epic ...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne 2

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864) Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804, on the 4th of July in Salem, Mass. His grandfather was a judge in the Salem witch trials. Nathaniel's surname, when born, was spelled, "Hathorne". After he graduated from college he added the "w" in order to make the spelling ...

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James Earl Jones: A Voice In The Crowd

March 19, 1996 People all around the world know the voice of James Earl Jones. From Star Wars fans listening to the voice of Darth Vader to news junkies who hear a voice that dramatically intones AThis is CNN@ just before all the cable network= s station breaks to children who hear the stately ...

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Paul Revere

Paul Revere was an American patriot and silversmith. Paul Revere was born in Boston, Jan. 1, 1735, and died May 10, 1818. Revere became a legendary hero at the start of the American Revolution, when he rode from Charlestown to Lexington, Mass., on the night of Apr. 18, 1775, to warn the ...

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Coming Together

Louisiana Purchase The Louisiana purchase was a major impact leading to a greater sense of independence and nationhood. Obtaining the Louisiana Purchase basically connected the nation by waterway which made it easier for things such as transportation to get done. By being connected to the rest ...

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Orion

"Down fell the red skin of the lion Into the river at his feet. His mighty club no longer beat The forehead of the bull; but he Reeled as of yore beside the sea, When blinded by Oenopion He sought the blacksmith at his forge, And climbing up the narrow gorge, Fixed his blank eyes upon the sun." ...

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Robert Frost

was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco. His father was William Frost, a Harvard graduate who was on his way westward when he stopped to teach at Bucknell Academy in Pennsylvania for extra money. His mother, Isabelle Moodie began teaching math at Bucknell while William was there, and they got ...

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The Midnight Ride Of Paul Revere

“One if by land, two if by sea"- the supposed famous words spoken by Paul Revere to Colonel William Conant, an American soldier stationed in the steeple of the North Church in Boston, waiting to send the signal of the proposed path of the British invasion on April 18, 1775 to Paul Revere. ...

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Nova Scotia

, one of the three Maritime and one of the four Atlantic provinces of Canada, bordered on the north by the Bay of Fundy, the province of New Brunswick, Northumberland Strait, and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and on the east, south, and west by the Atlantic Ocean. consists primarily of a mainland ...

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Edgar Allen Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Written and Contributed by SUGABUGA456 Edgar Allan Poe was one of America’s famous poets, fiction short-story writers, and literary critics. He is known as the first master of short story form especially in tales of horror, and mystery. The work he produced was ...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

E-mail: justintime_420@hotmail.com Justin B. Mrs. Wilkinson English Honors III 02/24/00 The 19th century had many great achievements happen within its 100-year time period. From the building of the Erie Canal, to the steel plow being invented. From the invention of the telegraph, to Thomas ...

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