English is a Germanic Language of the Indo-European Family. It is the second most spoken language in the world.
Ezra Pound (1885-1972) Ezra Pound was one of the most influential American poets of this century.
Imagism flourished in Britain and in the United States for a brief period that is generally considered to be somewhere between 1909 and 1917.
Many historians have characterized the period between the two world wars as the United States’ traumatic “coming of age,” despite the fact that U.S.
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, and baptized as Herman Theodore Dreiser.
Jack London, whose life symbolized the power of will, was the most successful writer in America in the early 20th Century.
Naturalism: Like Romanticism, naturalism first appeared in Europe.
Henry James (1843-1916) once wrote that art, especially literary art, “makes life, makes interest, makes importance.
Frontier humor and realism Two major literary currents in 19th-century America merged in Mark Twain: popular frontier humor and local color, or “regionalism.
According to legend, when Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1862 he said, “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that started this Great War!
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) is best known today as the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which helped galvanize the abolitionist cause and contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War.
A Brief Assessment A prolific writer, Howells is regarded as “the father of American Realism.
The second half of the 19th century has been called the positivist age.
Dialect – a variety of a language spoken by a group of people and having features of vocabulary, grammar, and/or pronunciation that distinguish it from other varieties of the same language.
(To) ace (v.) (a test, exam, etc.): To pass a test, exam, etc. really easily. ex: “Robert aced his physics exam.