Literature 8-9

• Negro spirituals are among the most important of all folk literature and America’s unique contribution to the folk music of the world
• Oh! Susanna is written by Stephen Foster
• America’s most beloved popular song composer is Stephen Foster
• Close to Thee is written by Fanny Crosby
• Fanny Crosby is America’s most beloved hymn writer of the nineteenth century
• Second Inaugural Address was written by Abraham Lincoln
• The Secret of Progress was written by Booker T. Washington
• Is the Bible True was written by William Jennings Bryan
• A Father’s Prayer was written by Douglas MacArthur
• My Old Kentucky Home is written by Stephen Foster
• More like Jesus Would I Be is written by Fanny Crosby
• Fanny Crosby was blind
• “Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.” is a quote from A Father’s Prayer
• The Nobel Prize Speech is written by William Faulkner
• Aleksander Solzhenitsyn warns the West about the threat of humanism and other things that would strip us of spiritual values
• William Faulkner warns future writers not to forget the truths of the human heart
• A World Split Apart is written by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
• Ralph Waldo Emerson was the founder of Transcendentalism
• Henry David Thoreau probably came closest to carrying out the teachings of Transcendentalism
• Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote "Nature"
• Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote "Self-Reliance"
• "Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string" is a quote from "Self-Reliance"
• "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself" is a quote from "Self-Reliance"
• Aphorisms are compact statements expressing a truth
• Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote "Each and All"
• Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote "Concord Hymn"
• Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote "A Nation's Strength"
• Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote "Voluntaries"
• "Here once the embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the world" is a quote from "Concord Hymn"
• "When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can." is a quote from "Voluntaries"
• Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote "The Rhodora"
• "Then Beauty is its own excuse for being" is a quote from "The Rhodora"
• Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote "Days"
• Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote "Fable"
• Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote "The Quotable Emerson"
• Henry David Thoreau wrote "Walden"
• "I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there." is a quote from "Walden"
• "The Experiences of the A.C." was written by Bayard Taylor
• "None of us were prepared for such a sudden and complete wreck of our Arcadian scheme." is a quote from "The Experiences of the A.C."
• "I Hear America Singing" was written by Walt Whitman