The Negro Speaks of Rivers
In the solution,
you can find the
name of one of
the major
representatives of
the Harlem
Renaissanc
e (1920s), thus
standing for the
AfroAmerican
literature.
(1902 – 1967)
I’ve known rivers:
I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older
than the
flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to
sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids
above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe
Lincoln
went down to New Orleans, and I’ve seen its muddy
bosom turn all golden in the sunset.
I’ve known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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1 A representative of American Renaissance (19th c),
author of Moby Dick
2 A science-fiction writer, author of the three laws of
robotics.
3 A device responsible for the horror and claustrophobic
atmosphere in E.A. Poe’s short-story The Pit and the ...
4 Jack London’s famous novel The White ....
5 First name of the major female character in
Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.
6 The famous American poet, a vanguard of the Beat
Generation.
7 Setting of Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, where the
bull-fights/chases take place.
8 The most famous poet of the Beat Generation,
revolting in his poem Howl.
9 J.F. Cooper created the myth of the American West,
focusing on extinction of one Indian tribe – the ...
10 First name of the main character in one of the
Twain’s adventurous books about young boys, escaping
from home, experiencing various things on their way.
11 The surname of the author of The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow and Rip Wan Winkle.
12 A comic novel, one of the most famous books dealing
with war problems, nonsense of commands, the main
character of which is Yossarian.
13 One of the first representatives of the Beat
Generation, the author of On the Road.
14 After WWI a group of writers disillusioned by the
war (among which also Hemingway belonged) appeared.
They started to be called the Lost Generation. What’s the
surname of the woman who invented the name of the
group?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langston_Hughes
http://www.biography.com/people/langston-hughes-9346313
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173693
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/