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Concord, Massachusetts

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City and state associated with Transcendentalism

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Washington Irving

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wrote The Devil and Tom Walker

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Washington Irving

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wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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Washington Irving

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wrote Rip Van Winkle

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Washington Irving

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wrote under the pseudonym Deidrich Knickerbocker

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Washington Irving

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wrote four books of tales including The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

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Washington Irving

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wrote Tales from the Alhambra

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Washington Irving; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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give the author and title: takes place in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town; about the ghost of a Hessian trooper who fought during the Revolutionary War

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Washington Irving; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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give the author and title: the main characters are Ichabod Crane, a schoolmaster, Katrina Van Tassel, and Brom Bones

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Washington Irving; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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give the author and title: a schoolmaster disappears; the only relics of his flight are his wandering horse, trampled saddle, discarded hat, and a mysterious shattered pumpkin

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Washington Irving; Rip Van Winkle

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give the author and title: takes place in New York's Catskill Mountains before and after the Revolutionary War; the main characters are a man and his dog named Wolf

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Washington Irving; Rip Van Winkle

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give the author and title: a man and his dog wander into the mountains, where the man gets drunk and falls asleep for twenty years and awakens to discover that all has changed

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Washington Irving; The Devil and Tom Walker

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give the author and title: a miserly man meets the devil who offers him pirate treasure in exchange for his soul; the man tries to get out of the deal but cannot escape his fate; he is whisked away on horseback, and all he has acquired in the devil's service turns to ash

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James Fenimore Cooper

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wrote the Leatherstocking Tales

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James Fenimore Cooper

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wrote The Pioneers

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James Fenimore Cooper

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wrote The Last of the Mohicans

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James Fenimore Cooper

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wrote The Prarie

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James Fenimore Cooper

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wrote The Pathfinder

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James Fenimore Cooper

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wrote The Deerslayer

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James Fenimore Cooper

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author who is considered America's first major novelist

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James Fenimore Cooper; the Leatherstocking Tales

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give the author and title: Natty Bumpo and his Indian companion Chingachgook are the main characters

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James Fenimore Cooper

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helped found the literary society called the Bread and Cheese Club

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James Fenimore Cooper

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author associated with the Hudson River School of Romantic painters

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William Cullen Bryant

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wrote Thanatopsis

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William Cullen Bryant

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wrote To a Waterfowl

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William Cullen Bryant; Thanatopsis

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give the author and title: "To him who in the novel of Nature holds / Communion with her visible forms, she speaks / A various language."

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William Cullen Bryant; Thanatopsis

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give the author and title: poem that emphasizes nature's ability to soothe man; death is a part of nature and should not be feared

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William Cullen Bryant; To a Waterfowl

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give the author and title: "He who, who from zone to zone, / Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, / In the long way that I must tread alone, / Will lead my steps aright."

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William Cullen Bryant; To a Waterfowl

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give the author and title: the speaker watches a bird migrating and realizes that the higher power that guides the bird will guide him through life

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William Cullen Bryant

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first American poet to use blank verse

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blank verse

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unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter

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John Greenleaf Whittier Oliver Wendell Holmes James Russell Lowell Henry Wadsworth Longfellow William Cullen Bryant

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name the 5 Fireside major poets (W, H, L, L, B)

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the Schoolroom Poets

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What is another name for the Fireside Poets?

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their poetry was easily memorized and often recited in the evenings near the fireplace

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Why were the Fireside Poets called the Fireside Poets?

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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wrote Evangeline; a poem about two lovers who immigrant from Acadia, Nova Scotia to Louisiana; the tragic tale of a woman whose lover disappears during the deportation of the Acadian people in 1755

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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wrote Hiawatha

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Henry Wadworth Longfellow

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wrote The Courtship of Miles Standish

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Henry Wadworth Longfellow; Evangline

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give the author and title: "Still stands the forest primeval; but far away from its shadow, / Side by side, in their nameless graves, the lovers are sleeping. / Under the humble walls of the little catholic churchyard, In the heart of the city, they lie, unknown and unnoticed; / Daily the tides of life go ebbing and flowing beside them, / Thousands of throbbing hearts, where theirs are at rest and forever, / Thousands of aching brains, where theirs no longer are busy, / Thousands of toiling hands, where theirs have ceased from their labors, / Thousands of weary feet, where theirs have completed their journey!"

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The Courtship of Miles Standish

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give the author and title: The Pilgrims grimly battle against disease and Indians, but are also obsessed with an eccentric love triangle. Two bumbling, feuding roommates, one of whom is John Alden, vie for the affections of the beautiful Priscilla Mullins. The independent-minded woman utters one of the most famous retorts ever: "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?"

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Henry Wadworth Longfellow; Hiawatha

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give the author and title: tells of the triumphs and sorrows of Hiawatha of the Ojibway, a tribe of Indians living along the Lake Superior shoreline in what is now Michigan

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

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wrote Old Ironsides

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Oliver Wendell Holmes; Old Ironsides

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give the author and title: a poem of protest that saved the USS Constitution, a battleship

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Oliver Wendell Holmes; Old Ironsides

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give the author and title: "Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! / Long has it waved on high, / And many an eye has danced to see / That banner in the sky; / Beneath it rung the battle shout, / And burst the cannon's roar;-- The meteor of the ocean air / Shall sweep the clouds no more."

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Oliver Wendell Holmes; Old Ironsides

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give the author and title: "Oh, better that her shattered bulk / Should sink beneath the wave; / Her thunders shook the mighty deep, / And there should be her grave; / Nail to the mast her holy flag, / Set every threadbare sail, / And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale!"

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Oliver Wendell Homes

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wrote The Chambered Nautilus

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Oliver Wendell Holmes; The Chambered Nautilus

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give the author and title: poem about a sea creature whose seashell grows; this growth is comparable to human spiritual growth

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James Russell Lowell

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wrote The First Snowfall

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James Russell Lowell; The First Snowfall

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give the author and title: the persona is reminded of his child who died and is buried beneath the snow

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John Greenleaf Whittier

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an abolitionist poet

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Edgar Allan Poe

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wrote The Raven

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Edgar Allan Poe

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wrote The Philosophy of Composition

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Edgar Allan Poe

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wrote The Fall of the House of Usher

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Edgar Allan Poe

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wrote The Black Cat

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Edgar Allan Poe

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wrote The Murders in the Rue Morgue

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Edgar Allan Poe

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wrote Annabel Lee

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Edgar Allan Poe

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wrote The Masque of the Red Death

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Edgar Allan Poe

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wrote To Helen

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Edgar Allan Poe

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wrote The Tell-Tale Heart

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Edgar Allan Poe

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wrote Ligeia

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Edgar Allan Poe

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considered the father of the short story

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Edgar Allan Poe

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famous for American Gothic literature

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Edgar Allan Poe

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inventor of the detective story

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The Murders in the Rue Morgue

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title of the first detective story

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Edgar Allan Poe; The Murders in the Rue Morgue

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give the author and title: short story about a detective named August Dupin who discovers a murderer is a razor-wielding orangutan

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Edgar Allan Poe; The Philosophy of Composition

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give the author and title: essay in which the author expresses the idea of totality of effect

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Edgar Allan Poe; The Philosophy of Composition

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give the author and title: expresses the idea that all literary works should be written to achieve a single effect in the reader

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Edgar Allan Poe; The Raven

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give the author and title: laments the loss of Lenore

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Edgar Allan Poe; The Raven

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give the author and title: "Nevermore"

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Edgar Allan Poe; The Fall of the House of Usher

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give the author and title: twins Roderick and Madeline are intimately connected; Madeline is buried alive; rises from her tomb; they both die in the end

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Edgar Allan Poe; Annabel Lee

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give the author and title: about a grieving husband who lies beside his lover's corpse

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Edgar Allan Poe; The Tell-Tale Heart

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give the author and title: a man murders an old man who has an evil eye and buries the old man beneath the floor of the cellar

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Edgar Allan Poe; The Masque of the Red Death

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give the author and title: Prince Prospero secludes himself in an abbey to avoid a pestilence; during a masked ball a figure arrives dressed as the pestilence and kills the prince; one cannot avoid death

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Edgar Allan Poe; To Helen

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give the author and title: poem about a beautiful woman--beautiful in both body and soul

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Edgar Allan Poe; To Helen

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give the author and title: "...thy beauty is to me / Like those Nicéan barks of yore , / That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, / The weary, way-worn wanderer bore / To his own native shore."

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Edgar Allan Poe; Ligeia

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give the author and title: the unnamed narrator married Lady Rowena after his wife's death; Lady Rowena dies and comes back to life as the narrator's first wife

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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wrote Concord Hymn

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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wrote Nature

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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wrote Self-Reliance

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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wrote The Divinity School Address

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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wrote The American Scholar

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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a Unitarian minister before he became a writer; left the church because his views and those of the church began to conflict

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Ralph Waldo Emerson; Nature

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give the author and title: "I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me. I am part or parcel of God."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson; Nature

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this author and book launched Transcendentalism

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Ralph Waldo Emerson; Nature

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give the author and title: explains how as our relationship with nature becomes ever more spiritual, our evils disappear and are replaced with goodness and virture

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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the father of Transcendentalism

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