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Early American Authors Quiz Game
Ruth wrote: "This author’s father had odd ideas about diet severely limited what the family ate.
Their meals were often made up of
unleavened bread, porridge, potatoes,
squash, rice, graham meal, and water...."
Louisa May Alcott?
Ruth you're hilarious!!
Emma wrote: "Meg said that?? ;D"I just barely beat Dorry to it! 😂
Ruth wrote: "Interesting? Why this guess?"Well it wasn't Hawthorne! 😂
Meg wrote: "Emma wrote: "Meg said that?? ;D"I just barely beat Dorry to it! 😂"
😂😂😂
So that's what that stampede was about.😄-You and Dorry.
Lovely roses, Emma.💐
Your handiwork?
😀-It was LOUISA MAY ALCOTT.Why did you chose ⬆?
Meg, your serve. 🎾
Lol thanks Ruth. Sadly no not my handiwork. :(
I've been debating whether to post this one or not, but here goes. 😄 There's not really a "correct" answer, I'm just wondering if anyone else gets the same idea as I did or if it's my imagination! Read this carefully, and tell me who (if anyone) comes to mind?"But now appeared a stranger, whom the host had no sooner recognized than, with an abundance of courtesy unlavished on any other, he hastened down the whole length of the saloon in order to pay him emphatic honor. Yet he was a young man in poor attire, with no insignia of rank or acknowledged eminence, nor anything to distinguish him among the crowd except a high, white forehead, beneath which a pair of deep-set eyes were glowing with warm light. It was such a light as never illuminates the earth save when a great heart burns as the household fire of a grand intellect. And who was he?—who but the Master Genius for whom our country is looking anxiously into the mist of Time, as destined to fulfil the great mission of creating an American literature, hewing it, as it were, out of the unwrought granite of our intellectual quarries? From him, whether moulded in the form of an epic poem or assuming a guise altogether new as the spirit itself may determine, we are to receive our first great original work, which shall do all that remains to be achieved for our glory among the nations. How this child of a mighty destiny had been discovered by the Man of Fancy it is of little consequence to mention. Suffice it that he dwells as yet unhonored among men, unrecognized by those who have known him from his cradle; the noble countenance which should be distinguished by a halo diffused around it passes daily amid the throng of people toiling and troubling themselves about the trifles of a moment, and none pay reverence to the worker of immortality. Nor does it matter much to him, in his triumph over all the ages, though a generation or two of his own times shall do themselves the wrong to disregard him."
Since it's Meggy asking, my guess would be Hawthorne.
Dorothy wrote: "Since it's Meggy asking, my guess would be Hawthorne."Everything makes me think of Hawthorne now thanks to Meg!!
My first thought is Edgar Allen Poe. XD
Where is the challenge if Meg's quizanswers with Hawthorne?
It will be predictable, like Dorry with
Louisa May Alcott.
Incidentally, Meg, have you planted
hawthornes yet?
If not, I'm surprised you haven't.
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"Young man in poor attire"Longfellow wasn't poor
🤔-hhmmm
I am conflicted: ⬆ and epic poem.
Doreen wrote: "She's torturing me in Mosses From An Old Manse. lol"How funny to see you hiding in the crowd.
Doreen, you are too funny. 😂
I knew you were going to guess that, Ruth! 😂 Well, he doesn't say that he did write an epic poem, necessarily. Also, I believe Longfellow's works were quick to become popular.
I am, after all, a Longfellowist.😋I associate fire and epic poem with him.
Ruth wrote: "Incidentally, Meg, have you planted hawthornes yet?
If not, I'm surprised ..."
No I haven't! 😱 For some reason I assumed it was too cold up here but I looked it up and the Hawthorne is hardy in our zone! Now to find out where to get one!! 😄💐
I'm going to follow Ruth's example and let everyone keep thinking for a while... 😂
Who was friends withIchabod Crane's creator?
Ruth wrote: "I am, after all, a Longfellowist.😋I associate fire and epic poem with him."
Well if it's possible to be two at once I am both a Longfellowist and a Hawthornite. 😂
Meg wrote: "Ruth wrote: "Incidentally, Meg, have you planted hawthornes yet?
If not, I'm surprised ..."
No I haven't! 😱 For some reason I assumed it was too cold up here but I looked it up and the Hawthorne ..."
🎈!!HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!🎈
Ruth wrote: "Who was friends withIchabod Crane's creator?"
😵 First of all who was Ichabod Crane? 🤣
Meg wrote: "I'm going to follow Ruth's example and let everyone keep thinking for a while... 😂"I thought we finished.
Geez, Meg, don't make it a habit of
dragging this out!!😂
Ruth wrote: "Meg wrote: "I'm going to follow Ruth's example and let everyone keep thinking for a while... 😂"I thought we finished.
Geez, Meg, don't make it a habit of
dragging this out!!😂"
Noooo, I'm not finished with you all yet!! 😂
🌬My ❄question❄ has been frozen pending further notice.❄
Ruth wrote: "🌬My ❄question❄ has been frozen pending further notice.❄"
Your sarcasm is it not appreciated!It's a byproduct of reading Twain.
Ok, here goes... 😄 That quote was from Hawthorne's story 'A Select Party'. If it had been written by anybody else I would have thought that that was supposed to be Hawthorne himself, but I'm slightly prejudiced. 😋 However, Mr. Hawthorne was very humble so I knew he wasn't intentionally representing himself! I'm inclined agree with Melville (sorry for all the lengthy quotes!)...And here, let me throw out another conceit of mine touching this American Shiloh, or "Master Genius," as Hawthorne calls him. May it not be, that this commanding mind has not been, is not, and never will be, individually developed in any one man? And would it, indeed, appear so unreasonable to suppose, that this great fullness and overflowing may be, or may be destined to be, shared by a plurality of men of genius? Surely, to take the very greatest example on record, Shakespeare cannot be regarded as in himself the concretion of all the genius of his time; nor as so immeasurably beyond Marlow, Webster, Ford, Beaumont, Jonson, that those great men can be said to share none of his power? For one, I conceive that there were dramatists in Elizabeth's day, between whom and Shakespeare the distance was by no means great. Let anyone, hitherto little acquainted with those neglected old authors, for the first time read them thoroughly, or even read Charles Lamb's Specimens of them, and he will be amazed at the wondrous ability of those Anaks of men, and shocked at this renewed example of the fact, that Fortune has more to do with fame than merit,-- though, without merit, lasting fame there can be none.
Nevertheless, it would argue too illy of my country were this maxim to hold good concerning Nathaniel Hawthorne, a man, who already, in some few minds, has shed "such a light, as never illuminates the earth, save when a great heart burns as the household fire of a grand intellect."
Ruth wrote: "Your sarcasm is it not appreciated!It's a byproduct of reading Twain."
😂😂😂
Meg wrote: "Ruth wrote: "Your sarcasm is it not appreciated!It's a byproduct of reading Twain."
😂😂😂"
😝
Look at that!Meg, you scared everyone off with your essays!
Ruth wrote: "Melville"No, no, no! A combination of all the great early American authors...
I never thought I would see the day when Doreen runs from Meg. 😂😂
Meg wrote: "Ruth wrote: "Melville"No, no, no! A combination of all the great early American authors..."
Forgive me Meg.
I haven't had much sleep- hence the blunder.
Ruth wrote: "Look at that!Meg, you scared everyone off with your essays!"
Maybe I should just go write a 9 volume commentary on American literature. 😂
Meg wrote: "Ruth wrote: "Look at that!Meg, you scared everyone off with your essays!"
Maybe I should just go write a 9 volume commentary on American literature. 😂"
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Ruth wrote: "Forgive me Meg.I haven't had much sleep- hence the blunder."
Aww, I'm sorry. 😔 Lack of sleep is a miserable feeling. I'm trying to get over a migraine so that's why I'm so cantankerous right now. 😂
Ruth wrote: "Meg wrote: "Ruth wrote: "Look at that!Meg, you scared everyone off with your essays!"
Maybe I should just go write a 9 volume commentary on American literature. 😂"
🚨This thread is closed🚨"
I bet no one would read it!
Meg wrote: "Ruth wrote: "Meg wrote: "Ruth wrote: "Look at that!Meg, you scared everyone off with your essays!"
Maybe I should just go write a 9 volume commentary on American literature. 😂"
🚨This thread is c..."
Neither would I.
Meg wrote: "Ruth wrote: "Neither would I.."💔😭"
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Aww, too bad! Well who is next then? Just please NOT Dorry! 😂"
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