1. Emerson, Longfellow and Bryant: Major American Authors

2. Emerson In 1832, he became a Transcendentalist, This lead to the later essays "Self- Reliance" and "The American Scholar." In 1832 Emerson traveled to Europe When he returned home in 1833, he began to lecture on topics of spiritual experience and ethical living.

3. Emerson became known as the central figure of his literary and philosophical group, now known as the American Transcendentalists. …each individual could transcend, or move beyond, the physical world of the senses into deeper spiritual experience through free will and intuition. God was not remote and unknowable; believers understood God and themselves by looking into their own souls and by feeling their own connection to nature.

4. Longfellow born in Portland, Maine and second son in a family of eight children. Henry was a dreamy boy who loved to read. Became a professor after his first wife died and after traveling to Europe. He proposed to another woman who, after a long while, finally accepted his proposal. She died 18 years later.

5. Bryant From Cummington, Massachusetts Began practicing law in Plainfield, MA. He would walk seven miles to school each day. In December 1815, he noticed a single bird flying on the horizon; the sight moved him enough to write "To a Waterfowl".

6. “Thanatopsis”-- What is known about its publication is that his father took some pages of verse from his son's desk and submitted them, along with his own work, to the North American Review in 1817. Someone at the North American joined two of the son's discrete fragments, gave the result the Greek-derived title Thanatopsis (meditation on death), mistakenly attributed it to the father, and published it. The work was very well-received and more of Bryant’s work was duly published, including “To a Waterfowl.”

7. New Vocab Personification Onomatopoeia Mood- the feeling created in a reader by a literary work (CHARGED WORDS!!!)

8. To be completed in class: Page 275-279; 397-398: Read and TPT(theme). You will paraphrase each STANZA for these. After completing the TPT for each, you will identify and ANNOTATE the mood, any personification, or onomatopoeia. You will then answer the questions provided. We will practice with one first. Turn to page 450.