He inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to create Sherlock Holmes.

Emerson said that this writer died 'of solitude.'

Abroad, he played into the role of the sophisticated but homespun American.

Never once sought an audience for personal writing.

Herman Melville said, 'A whale ship was my----what?'

Complete and identify work. 'Vengeance on a dumb brute! That simply smote thee from blindest----?'

Identify passage and work. 'When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky; but some times, when the rest of the landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of gray vapours about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory.”

Complete and identify work. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that ----'

Complete and identify work. 'Whoso would be a man must be a--'

Complete and identify work. 'I wished to live without committing any fault at any time.'

The American frontier provided a sense of the vast expanse, freedom, no geographic limitations.

There is a higher truth, a world that exists beyond reason and experience.

The Supreme Being or Creator does not intervene in human affairs or suspend the natural laws of the universe

One believed that humans are prone to sin and self-destruction and the others believed that humans possess inherent divinity and wisdom.

Viewed life within a spiritual stuggle: every event--no matter how trivial--bore a divine message, whether good or bad.

The first American to become an international literary celebrity.

A profound explorer of the torments of the human soul.

First uniquely American philosopher.

Works that made romance of American history, he was also the first American writer to be honored with a bust in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey in London.

Gave the elegy for Nathaniel Hawthorne unaware that he had written in his own life, what would become, arguably, the greatest American novel.

Stephen King said, 'You must not come to tales such as these with your guard dow. Hey will entertain you, but they will not comfort you.' Identify a work to which these words apply.

Albert Einstein said, 'Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” Identify a work that states a similiar idea.

Tim Hansel said, 'Life becomes precious and more special to us when we look for the little everyday miracles and get excited about the privileges of simply being human” Identify two works that share this sentiment.

Bruce Barton suggests, 'When you are through changing, you are through.' What other work parallels this idea?

Robert Frost said, 'Poetry is what gets lost in translation.' Which American poet might agree, based upon the subject of one of his/her poem?

Three literary devices associated with the work of Edgar Allan Poe.