PPT-American Nature Writers

20 th century John Muir 18381914 The Mountains of California 1894 Grew up in Wisconsin Spent most of his adult life in California promoting the Sierra Nevadas and national parks Amateur scientist of glaciation. Week . 2 . | . 1/28/16. Poet(s) of the Week: . Walt Whitman and Emily . Dickinson. Major . Poem: . The Comedian as the Letter C . 22. Domination . of Black 7; The Snow Man 8; Le Monocle de Mon . Oncle. Week 12 | . 4/14/16. Poet(s) of the Week: . Richard Wilbur and A. R. Ammons. Major Poem: . An Ordinary Evening in New Haven 399. The . Plain Sense of Things 428; Vacancy in the Park 434; The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain 435; Two Illustrations That the World is What You Make of It 435; Prologues to What is Possible 437; Looking Across the Fields and Watching the Birds Fly 439; The World as Meditation . 1914-1945. Snapshot of the Period. The America that entered the 20. th. century was a nation achieving dominance while . silmuntaneously. losing innocence. Two World Wars, a decade of prosperity, and a Depression marked this era. These upheavals ushered a period of literary boldness and lasting achievement. During this time the movie industry became a commercial powerhouse.. Week 11 | 4/17/16. Poet(s) of the Week: . Robert Lowell and Frank O’Hara. Major Poem: . The Auroras of Autumn 355. Large Red Man Reading 365; This Solitude of Cataracts 366; The Ultimate Poem is Abstract 369; The Owl in the Sarcophagus 371; Saint John and the Back-Ache 375; A Primitive Like an Orb 377; Metaphor as Degeneration 381; What We See is What We Think 392; Angel Surrounded by . Week 4 | . 2/11/16. Poet(s) . of the Week: . William Carlos Williams [Presentation TBA] . Major Poem: . The Man with the Blue Guitar . 135. Poetry . Is a Destructive Force 178; The Poems of Our Climate 179; Study of Two Pears 180; The Glass of Water 181; The Man on the Dump 184; . Week 9 | . 3/24/16. Poet(s) . of the Week: . W. H. Auden and Muriel Rukeyser. . [. Presentation . TBA. ]. Major . Poem: . Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction . 329. Major American Writers: Wallace Stevens. Colonial 1650-1750. ~ The . Colonial movement . was. . mostly . instructional. . ~ It . was to spread the word . of. . . God, and help the . corrupted. . (which . was . everyone). . ~ This . Cultural . Liberation. Literature and the arts:. Most of earlier genteel writers had died by 1920s. New Yorker Edith Wharton and Virginia-born Willa Cather continued to be popular. Now new modernists becoming popular (see Thinking Globally section). Now Presenting-. American Philosophers, Romantics, Gothics, and Transcendentalists. Asking the question: . Are humans inherently good or evil?. Answer and provide examples. . The Light Side or Dark Side. 1915-1945. Dr. Karen Rose. Many . historians argue that America’s cultural coming of age occurs during this . time. . The . artistic innovations . of Modernism are viewed as a . response to . dramatic historical, cultural, and economic events.. What is American Literature?. American Literature is exactly what it sounds like literature that is specific to America. So what exactly does that mean?. Early American Fiction (1492-1789). The history of American Lit. begins with the 1. Literary . Movements. September 8, 2014. Major themes . in American Literature. American individualism . Also known as . the self-made man. Celebration of ambition and achievement. Original colonists came for religious freedom. Romanticism, transcendentalism, gothic, etc.. Romanticism: What were some of the defining characteristics of the . romantics. ?. These writers and artists . take . inspiration from nature . and affirm the . called. . “. . ”. ). Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.. ~_______ ________ (in . Moby Dick.