Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

                                                                                                                                                                 H. Thoreau

  • Benjamin Fanklin (1706 – 1790)
  • Washington Irving (1783 – 1859)
  • James Fenimore Cooper (1789 – 1851)
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864)
  • Herman Melville (1819 – 1891)
  • Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849)
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
  • Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
  • Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830 – 1886)
  • Francis Bret Harte (1836 – 1902)
  • William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) (1862 – 1910)
  • Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835 – 1910)
  • Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (1871 – 1945)
  • Carl Sandburg (1878 – 1967)
  • Robert Lee Frost (1874 – 1963)
  • Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940)
  • James Mercer Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967)
  • Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899 – 1961)
  • Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888 – 1953)
  • William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897 – 1962)
  • Arthur Asher Miller (1915 – 2005)
  • Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (1911 – 1983)
  • Jerome David Salinger (1919 - 2010)

Test 6

1. American drama. Eugene O'Neil.

2. Arthur Miller.

3. Tennessee Williams.

4. J. D. Salinger.

Test 5

1. American Modernism

2. The Harlem Renaissance

3. F. S. Fitzgerald

4. E. Hemingway

5. W. Faulkner

Th. Dreiser

Th. Dreiser (life and works)

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TrCRjx6pTqxYs9BN7LRyhs7KWFW5UGvs?usp=sharing

O'Henry

O'Henry (presentation, cartoons, audio files)

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VF83RbKr6BkWuPbiHZzQDh6CNcfwWkWm?usp=sharing

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BRk_HhnW7c1zLX5DcKwlDTDy5BbUTYOf?usp=sharing

Realism

American Realism

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RCzC7v2fyoo-TGqF-nDXTO3IuGwHRo6z?usp=sharing

Transcendentalism

American Transcendentalism

R. W. Emerson "Self-Reliance" (quotes to be explained in 10-12 sentences)

H D. Thoreau "Walden" (quotes to be explained in 10-12 sentences)

E. Dickinson

E. A. Poe

H. Melville

N. Hawthorne

J. F. Cooper

The Romantic Period. W. Irving

The American Enlightenment. B. Franklin

The National Beginnings