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Anything that turns away hope or causes ruins
Blight
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Able to seen through
Transparent
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Form into a whole
Integrate
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Thinking excessively of oneself
Egotism
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Excelling; surpassing
Transcendent
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Strong or fixed dislike
Aversion
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Sound moral principles; honesty
Integrity
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Very noisy, disorderly, or violent
Tumultuous
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Generations to come
Posterity
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Inborn; built-in
Inherent
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Uncertain; insecure; risky
Precarious
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Erase or destroy completely
Obliterate
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Greed; desire for wealth
Avarice
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More than is needed or wanted; useless
Superfluous
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Deliberately attracting notice
Ostentatious
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Believability
Plausibility
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Spread throughout
Prevaded
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Diseased; unhealthy
Morbid
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Clearheaded; not confused
Lucid
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Abnormal drowsiness
Lethargy
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Thantopsis
William Cullen Bryant
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The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The Cross of Snow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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from Self- Reliance
Emerson
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from Resistance to Civil Government
Thoreau
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The Devil and Tom Walker
Irving
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The Minister's Black Veil
Hawthorne
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The Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allen Poe
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The Pit and the Pendulum
Edgar Allen Poe
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The Raven
Edgar Allen Poe
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The Black Cat
Edgar Allen Poe
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The Masque of the Red Death
Edgar Allen Poe
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The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allen Poe
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Key authors of Transcendentalism
Emerson and Thoreau
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Fireside Poets: group of popular poets during the 1850's
Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, and Holmes
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Key authors of Gothic Fiction
Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Irving
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William Cullen Bryant
- -Writing poetry by age 9
- -Known as the "Father of American Poetry"
- -Wrote "Thanatopsis"
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- -Most popular American poet
- -Professor at Harvard
- -1st American Poet to be honored with a statue at the Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey in London
- -Tried to save his wife in a fire, but was badly burned
- -Wrote "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls" and "The Cross of Snow"
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
- -Became a minister, but resigned because he questioned his beliefs (after the loss of his wife of 17 months)
- -Traveled in Europe; met and conversed with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (famous British poets)
- -Inspiring, popular speaker
- -Wrote "Nature" and "Self- Reliance"
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Henry David Thoreau
- -Went to Harvard; wore a green coat to rebel
- -Lived for 2 years at Walden Pond
- -Friend of Emerson
- -Wrote "Walden" and "Resistance to Civil Government"
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Herman Melville
- -Merchant on a ship, went on a whale expedition
- -At first, Moby Dick was not successful
- -Billy Budd was published 33 years after his death and acclaimed a masterpiece
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Edgar Allan Poe
- -1809-1849
- -Taken in by the Allan's, but was never formally adopted
- -Attended University of Virginia and West Point: never graduated
- -Worked as a writer, editor and critic
- -Married his cousin, Virginia Clemm
- -Known as "The Father of Modern Detective story"
- -Mother, wife, adoptive mother all died of Tuberculosis (TB)
- -Wrote "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Raven", "The Black cat", "Masque of the Red Death", and "The Cask of Amontillado"
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