Authors

Authors

1. HARLEM RENAISSANCE

   • Paul Laurence Dunbar
     • Poems
       • We Wear the Mask
       • Sympathy
       • Douglass
     • Among last gen. to have ongoing contact with former African American slaves
     • Pre-cursor to Harlem Renaissance
   • Claude McKay
     • Born in Jamaica
     • Did not live long in Harlem, but considered it home
     • Poems
       • America
       • Enslaved
       • If We Must Die
       • Tropics in New York
   • Langston Hughes
     • Poems
       • Weary Blues
       • Harlem
       • Mother to Son
       • I, Too
       • Dreams Deferred
     • considered the "Bard of Harlem"
       • Did not live long in Harlem, but considered it home
     • Wrote plays and screenplays
   • Countee Cullen
     • Poems
       • Tableau
       • Incident
     • Public school teacher in Harlem

2. REALISM

   • Emily Dickinson
     • Poems
       • Because I could not stop for Death
       • Death sets a thing significant
       • Hope is a thing with feathers
       • I died for beauty
       • If I can stop one heart from breaking
       • This is my letter to the world
     • Went to boarding school and then seminary, exceptional student
     • often pictured in white
     • Stylistic Qualities
       • Short lines
       • personification
       • rhyme
         • Iambic
         • Unique usage
       • Abstract
       • Tiny Details
       • Images/ metaphors
   • Mark Twain
     • Celebrated Jumping Frog
     • Real name- Samuel Clemens
     • Name comes from a measurement used on boats
     • miner
     • Stylistic Qualities
       • vernacular
       • hyperbole
       • Realism
     • Huckleberry Finn
       • Ernest Hemmingway "All modern American Literature comes from [this] one book"
       • "A new way of writing"

3. MODERNS

   • Robert Frost
     • Poems
       • Acquainted with the Night
       • Birches
       • Fire and Ice
       • Nothing Gold Can Stay
       • Road not Taken
       • Stopping by the Woods on A Snowy Evening
     • Went to school @ Dartmouth and Harvard
     • Read the poem "The Gift Outright @ Kennedy's presidential inauguration
     • Stylistic Qualities
       • Narrative dialogue
       • Nature
       • Dramatic monologue
       • long lines
       • Realism
   • Martin Luther King Jr.
   • Kennedy
   • Ray Bradbury
     • Fahrenheit 451