Across
- 2. Transcendental writer of women's issues
- 5. Sandburg's tribute to the windy city
- 8. Movement born in Boston led by Emerson
- 11. What Mark Twain called his age of the late 19th century
- 12. The sin of Adam and Eve that humans have inherited
- 15. Romantic folklore writer of New York
- 16. style concerning bleak ordinary life, an uncaring universe
- 18. Believer in the green light
- 19. Perhaps the first American writer to develop the idea of American Dream
- 21. writer who popularized self improvement and rags to riches themes
- 23. What the Puritans called those believed destined for Heaven
- 24. art style that featured medieval castles, death, dreary weather
Down
- 1. World war II is typically this age's ending point
- 2. Part Nick and part Gatsby, wrote to prove his love for a girl and his literary merit
- 3. War that divides Romantic from Realism eras
- 4. Thoreau practiced his transcendental beliefs at this woods and pond for two years
- 6. Horror story originator and poet, the Raven
- 7. Enlightenment concept of believing in God without a religion
- 9. Writing that captures a local set of customs, dialect
- 10. Era of bold experimentation in new styles, themes of pessimism and doubt
- 13. Eliot's important poem of alienation and doubt
- 14. Gothic writer who focused on secret sin and Puritan settings
- 17. poet who "sings himself and celebrates himself" in his Leaves of Grass
- 20. Revolutionary pamphlet writer, Common Sense, The Crisis
- 22. To Build a Fire writer