lit MIDTERM classical authors/poets
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- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- an American poet who wrote of true historical events and people most often in narrative poetry
- Emily Dickinson
- simple words of love, life, nature and death sometimes with deep meanings written during her social and her reclusive years
- Walt Whitman
- a thoughtful philosophical author who is best known for his collection, Leaves of Grass
- Robert Frost
- an American poet whose poems were most often set in the New England countryside
- Jack London
- survival literature; wilderness adventure
- EE Cummings
- known for the complex meaning and unusual punctuation and capitalization of his poetry
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- a British author often compared to Shakespeare
- James Thurber
- humorous writing of everyday life by exaggeration
- Edgar Allan Poe
- dark and gloomy writer of horror
- TS Eliot
- American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama
- Carl Sandburg
- a poet who loved to write of history and America; the first to write free verse
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
- British author who wrote of war and political responsibility in a bold tone; most known for "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
- Mark Twain
- realistic fiction; greatest American humorist of all times; changed literature