Who does Young Goodman Brown meet on his errand into the woods that fateful night?

Thoreau’s essay Civil Disobedience influenced two twentieth century reform leaders. Who were they?

What ________________ experienced at sea, in ports, and on islands shaped his life and writing and made him claim that ” . . . a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

For Emerson, the best thing a person could do was to

Melville dedicated his novel Moby Dick (1851) to his friend and fellow novelist ___________________ .

The Fireside Poets were also known as

Hawthorne once noted that Emerson provided him his philosophy of life.

Why did Thoreau resign his teaching position in Concord? 

Thanatopsis is a Greek word meaning

The Fireside poets wrote poetry categorized as neo-classical, which means it was highly innovative and experimental.  It rarely rhymed and ignored the conventions of traditional poetry.