| A | B |
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| Romantic literature | Emphasized man's aspirations, emotions, individuality, personak experiences & imagination. |
| Fireside or Schoolroom Poets | Emphasized family values and patriotism |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Mysteries, detective & horror stories |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Wrote about sin & guilt of man |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | His poem saved the Constitution battleship from being destroyed. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Only American poet honored in England's Westminster Abbey |
| Washington Irving | Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Rip Van Winkle were 2 of his stories. |
| John Greenleaf Whittier & James Russell Lowell | Some Fireside poets |
| James Fenimore Cooper | Sometimes called America's first novelist |
| Horace Greely & James Gordon Bennett | Newspaper editors |
| Gospel songs | Revivals & camp meetings produced these. |
| Negro Spirituals | The most distinct contribution to American music |
| Banjo | Black slaves introduced this to America |
| Stephen Foster | Best known composer of his time who wrote over 200 songs |
| Lowell Mason | Carried on the tradition of the "singing school" |
| Gilvert Stuart, Charles Willson Peale, & Edward Hicks | Some American artists |
