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1455
Quattrocento
Printing was invented in 1455, before, the mok=nks were still the ones making copies of everything. also, the church became week and corrupt by engaging in the theatre. they need a way to keep the attention of there loyal subjects, however, they took it to far, doing everything they can to improve their entertainment, rather than remembering and practicing God's word. -
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Modernism
modern character or quality of thought, expression, or technique. -
Walt Whitman
was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality. -
Emily Dickinson
While Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly 1,800 poems were published during her lifetime. The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation. -
Mark Twain
Better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1875) and its sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel". Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. -
Leaves of Grass
My take on the Leaves of grass: It was definitely a very taboo subject to take about at that time, in fact, that subject even still taboo in a way in today's world, however, we can discuss it openly now today, but back then I would;t be surprised if he was condemned for such a writing. -
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Western Frontier
Closing the Western Frontier. In 1860, most Americans considered the Great Plains the “Great American Desert.” Settlement west of Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and Lousiana averaged just 1 person per square mile. The only parts of the Far West that were highly settled were California and Texas. -
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Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war that was fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865. As a result of the long-standing controversy over slavery, war broke out in April 1861, when Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina, shortly after U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated. The nationalists of the Union proclaimed loyalty to the U.S. Constitution. They faced secessionists of the Confederate States, who advocated for states' rights to expand slavery. -
Newspapers Grew
The newspapers grew after the end of the civil war. during this period, writers increasingly adapted the form of realism in the fiction. "truthful treatment in material" it's not what could happen, it's what probably did happen. -
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Immigration
Immigration exploded which made cities explode. the rail roads increased the price of the land and large-scale farmers took over family farms. -
Robert Frost
An American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in America. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech, Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes. -
Naturalism
At the end of the American reconstruction Naturalism effect all aspects of life, especially for the poor class. Naturalism is a style and theory of representation based on the accurate depiction of detail. -
Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois, on January 6, 1878. His parents, August and Clara Johnson, had emigrated to America from the north of Sweden. After encountering several August Johnsons in his job for the railroad, the Sandburg’s father renamed the family. The Sandburgs were very poor; Carl left school at the age of thirteen to work odd jobs, from laying bricks to dishwashing, to help support his family. -
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens is one of America's most respected poets. He was a master stylist, employing an extraordinary vocabulary and a rigorous precision in crafting his poems. But he was also a philosopher of aesthetics, vigorously exploring the notion of poetry as the supreme fusion of the creative imagination and objective reality. Because of the extreme technical and thematic complexity of his work, Stevens was sometimes considered a willfully difficult poet. -
Marianne Moore
Moore was born in Kirkwood, Missouri, in the manse of the Presbyterian church where her maternal grandfather, John Riddle Warner, served as pastor. Her parents separated before she was born after her father, John Milton Moore, a mechanical engineer, and inventor, suffered a psychotic episode; Moore never met him. She and her older brother, John Warner Moore, were reared by their mother, Mary Warner Moore. -
T.S. Eliot
He was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets". Born in St. Louis, in the United States, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25, settling, working, and marrying there. He eventually became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39, renouncing his American passport. -
Archibald MacLeish
He was an American poet and writer who was associated with the modernist school of poetry. MacLeish studied English at Yale University and law at Harvard University. He enlisted in and saw action during the First World War and lived in Paris in the 1920s. On returning to the US, he contributed to Henry Luce's magazine Fortune from 1929 to 1938. -
Western Frontier
Fredrick Johnson Turner declared that the Western Frontier was no more a frontier. -
F. Scott Fitzgerald
An American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. While he achieved limited success in his lifetime, he is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. -
Ernest Hemingway
He married Hadley Richardson, the first of what would be four wives. The couple moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s "Lost Generation" expatriate community. His debut novel, The Sun Also Rises, was published in 1926. After his 1927 divorce from Richardson, Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer; they divorced after he returned from the Spanish Civil War, where he had been a journalist. -
Langston Hughes
He was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance in New York City. He famously wrote about the period that "the negro was in vogue", which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue". -
John Steinbeck
An American author, he won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters", and many of his works are considered classics of Western literature -
Tennessee Williams
He was an American playwright. Along with Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama -
Elizabeth Bishop
An American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, the National Book Award winner in 1970, and the recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1976. She is considered one of the finest poets of the 20th century. -
Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice. I do agree with him... Let the world burn. -
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Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. During the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. The Movement also included the new African-American cultural expressions across the urban areas in the Northeast and Midwest United States affected by the African-American Great Migration,[1] of which Harlem was the largest. -
James Baldwin
An American novelist and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America. Some of Baldwin's essays are book-length, including The Fire Next Time (1963), No Name in the Street (1972), and The Devil Finds Work (1976). -
The Great Gatsby
This was really the only book that gave in fame and fortune, after that, all other works were kind of a bust, people only read them because he wrote the great gatsby and people loved his work so they wanted to read the other works, but were not well received. this book is beautiful and inspiring and is a fairy tale that really did happen. -
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
An African-American author, essayist, political activist and lawyer, best known for his novels and, short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity in the post-Civil War South. Many families of free people of color were formed in the colonial and early Federal period; some attained education and property; in addition, there were many mixed-race slaves, who as freedmen after the war were part of the complex society of the South. -
Joan Didion
An American journalist and writer of novels, screenplays, and autobiographical works. Didion is best known for her literary journalism and memoirs. In her novels and essays, Didion explores the disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos; the overriding theme of her work is individual and social fragmentation. -
The Grapes of Wrath
This book was a hard one to read, it really does put into perspective just how much people who were poor suffered during the great depression, whoever it also leveled the playing field in a way because everyone really was poor, except for the few filthy rich. -
A Streetcar Named Desire
A play/musical that has won many awards and produced a countless number of times. It is somehow still relatable and is still being put on in many forms of entertainment to this very day. -
The Year of Magical Thinking
It really is a cold peace to read that still somehow manages to have a warmth and reassurance to the idea that she is relieving her husband's death. sad, but yet I don't feel sad, she wants to keep it from being sad as to not cry, cause if she did, she would never stop.
