DEVELOPMENTAL LITERARY TRENDS AND

PERIOD WRITER WORK SIGNIFICANCE INFLUENCES

Henry o Poetry Books radically egalitarian use symbols,

R Wadsworth Evangeline and politically myths, or fantastic
O Longfellow The Golden Legend progressive elements as the
The Song of Hiawatha
M Frontier promised focus and
o Poetry
A opportunity for expression of the
A Psalm Of Life
N expansion, growth, protagonist's
Birds Of Passage
T freedom; Europe mental processes
Hiawatha's Childhood
lacked this element.
I Hymn To The Night or to convey
C Nuremberg deeper
Spirit of optimism
The Belfry Of Bruges
invoked by the psychological or
P The Building of the Long
promise of an archetypal
E Serpent
uncharted frontier. themes.
The Building of the Ship
R
The Castle Builder
I
The Midnight Ride Of Paul Immigration brought
O Revere new cultures and
D The Reaper And The Flowers perspectives
The Reaper And The Flowers.
The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls Growth of industry in
The Village Blacksmith the north that further
The Wreck Of The Hesperus polarized the north
and the agrarian
south.
Isle of the Cross
Herman Melville Search for new
Moby-Dick
The Confidence-Man spiritual roots.
The Piazza Tales
Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage
in the Holy Land
 Emily Dickinson "Hope" is the thing with
feathers
"Why do I love" You, Sir?
"Faith" is a fine invention
"Heaven"is what I cannot
reach!
A Book
"Nature" is what we see
A Bird Came Down
"Heaven" has different Signs
to me
A Coffinis a Small Domain
A Dying Tigermoaned for
Drink
A Cloud withdrew from the Sky
'Arcturus' is his other name
Because I could not stop for
Death (712)
'Speech'is a prank of
Parliament

Narrative of the Life of

Frederick Frederick Douglass,
Douglass

An American Slave,
Written by Himself (1845);

The Heroic Slave, 1853;

 My Bondage and My
Freedom (1855);

Life and Times of Frederick

Douglass: Written by
Himself

Ralph Waldo
Emerson The American Scholar

Self-Reliance,

The Over-Soul,

Circles,

The Poet and Experience.