<<Home  |  Puzzle >>

Across

Down

5.

When Tom Walker refuses to be a slave trader, the devil suggests he become a            .

1.

"Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell."

9.

Poe, who is credited with inventing the detective story, not surprisingly often tells tales of revenge and                .

2.

"For the love of                  , Montressor!"

10.

Emerson's middle name.

3.

This is the painter who needed to remember the American vistas.

11.

Montressor's leads Fortunato down into the                 that lie beneath his estate and under the river.

4.

I produced from beneath the fold of my roquelair a                .

12.

Poe, more than any other romanticist, was intrigued with the inner, often                 side of human beings.

5.

The narrators of Poe's fiction, especially the "Tell-Tale heart, is an                  or questionable narrator.

14.

Hawthorne makes it clear that his story of the mysterious minister is a                 , or a short tale that makes a moral point.

6.

The "bird of yore" lands upon this.

15.

This poet, whose name is not short, was a very famous poet around the firesides of America.

7.

This author wrote a poem to tell his painter chum to remember the wild scenes of America when he went to Europe.

19.

He was Cooper's hero in the five Leathers stocking Tales.

8.

They were called the                 poets because many generations of school kids were to memorize their verse.

This writer said: "It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"

10.

                Pond is where the most famous journal in American literature was written.

His dark tale of evil entered on a man who was obsessed with a great white whale.

13.

This is the type of wine that Fortunato is lead to believe can be found in Montressor's cellar.

Romanticists like Cooper, Irving, and Hawthorne believed that America's                was a rich and fertile subject for literature.

16.

Goddess of wisdom, arts, and just causes.

The author of "The Devil and Tom Walker was named, in part, for this American President.

17.

Along with their passion for the inner world of individuals, Romantics typically supported               reform.

Look yee into your Raven notes, for a word that means "long ago."

18.

"I felt a                 in my brain"

Reverend Hooper makes a bold, fashion statement with this.

22.

Emerson and Thoreau believed that reason alone couldn't answer all the important questions . They felt                 was also needed.

The philosophy that certain New England mystics promoted, one that rejected

23.

Poe's king learns that the jester isn't joking when his torch causes the tar and flax to                .

32.

The physical bait of Montressor's trap.  (Don't confuse with emotional lure--Fortunato's pride)

26.

He believed that a story should be short enough to read in one sitting.

36.

Pun intended, he pinned the letter on poor Hester Prynne.

29.

A mythical, Greek drug of forgetfulness or release from sorrow the is mentioned in the Odyssey and "The Raven."

Romanticists, especially Cooper, idealized native Americans as "savages" because they lived in nature and not cities.

Dickinson often explored the theme of                 or loss of the loved one.

A general romantic theme was that urban life had an               influence on people's lives and spirits.

This is what the pesky bird keeps squawking.

Perhaps the ultimate, romantic American myth is the myth of the never-ending American                .

Irving attempted to work the feel of a                 or traditional story.

During the romantic period (1775-1865) America's urbanization, industrialization, and                , all dramatically increased.  

Because her poetry is difficult, her life has sometimes attracted more attention by the masses.

The repetition of initial constant sounds. "One upon a mid-night dreary, while I pondered week and weary."

"To a                " is dedicated and inspired by a bird that filled a young man with confidence and faith.

Emerson's name for the inclusive unity that he said all people had a piece of was                .

In "The Raven," who is swinging the "unseen censer."

While walking in                 Emerson said he often "Felt glad to the brink of fear.

Her poetry often falls into the                 stanza, or alternating lines of iambic tetrameter, and trimeter with a ABCB  rhyme scheme.

This according to the author, was emblematic of "mournful and never ending remembrance."

"It was the beating of his hideous                . "

This is the first name of the goddess whom overlooks Poe's sad, weary student. By the end she's gone from "Placid" to "pallid."

She describes her pain as gradual and terrifying, like a "               with a notch."