• Anne Bradstreet exhibits the Puritan “plain style” in her poetry

• Mary Rowlandson’s account of her 11­week captivity encouraged anti­Indian sentiment in the colonies

• From her writings, Abigail Adams shows early feminist causes

• Meriwether Lewis contributed vast knowledge of botany, geology, and geography in his journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

• In his poem “Thanatopsis”, William Cullen Bryant exhibits both transcendental and Calvinist elements

• Show how Concord, Massachusetts was the first rural American artist’s colony offering a spiritual and cultural alternative to American materialism

• Ralph Waldo Emerson reveals his transcendentalist beliefs in his essay “Self­ Reliance”

• Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “From Nature” reflects the 19th Century romantic thought

• Ralph Waldo Emerson took much of his spiritual insight from readings of Eastern religions as seen in his poem, “Brahma”

• Transcendentalists like Bronson Alcott and Robert Owens and George and Sophia Ripley created experimental utopian colonies to counteract the attitudes created by the Industrial Revolution

• Transcendentalism was a philosophical, literary, social, and theological Movement

• Civil disobedience and peaceful resistance used today by activists had their base from Henry David Thoreau’s beliefs

• Edgar Allan Poe was culturally informed, not isolated, as a writer during his time

• Sojourner Truth encouraged abolitionism and women’s suffrage in her evangelistic preaching

• Walt Whitman’s greatest legacy is the invention of American free verse

• Walt Whitman conveys the nation’s loss of Abraham Lincoln in “O Captain! My Captain” and “When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloomed”

• Emily Dickinson often wrote her poems from the perspective of the dead

• Emily Dickinson often relied on her education in the sciences for the subjects of many of her poems

• In Kate Chopin’s short stories, characters search for female spiritual emancipation

• Muckrakers Ida Tarbell, Jane Addams, and Upton Sinclair through their writings were successful social reformers in the 19th Century

• Paul Laurence Dunbar was the first African­American poet to express lyrical qualities of the black dialect

• Through his writings and political activism, W. E. B. DuBois was one of the most influential African Americans of the late 19th and early 20th centuries

• Robert Frost wrote many poems drawing ideas from his own life, recurrent losses and everyday tasks

• William Carlos Williams, a medical doctor, novelist, essayist, playwright and poet experimented with meter and images when writing about everyday people

• Harlem Renaissance Poets set the tone and imagery with language choice to represent realism and idealism in their poetry

• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway portrays the theme of “the lost generation: showing the disillusionment of Americans after World War I

• Twain is admired for capturing typical American experiences in a language which is realistic and charming.