In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.

[Q]: This writer began one poem describing the ""various language"" with which Nature speaks to those who hold ""Communion with her visible forms. "" One of this author's poems asks the title creature why ""dost thou pursue thy solitary way"" In another poem, this author instructed the reader ""go not, like the quarry slave at night,"" instead urging the reader to ""[lie] down to pleasant dreams. "" For 10 points, name this long-time New York Evening Post editor who wrote ""To A Waterfall"" and ""Thanatopsis,"" an early American poet.
[A]: Literature


[Q]: He adapted Joseph Blackburn's portrait d'apparat method for his works depicting a fat-looking woman with a blue book in Mrs. James Russell, Katherine Graves, an old elegant lady with a hint of a mustache in Mrs. Thomas Boylston, and a red-coated Samuel Adams. Influenced by John Smibert, his later historical works include The Death of the Earl of Chatham and The Death of Major Peirson. His The Boy with a Squirrel got him noticed, and he also painted a famous portrait of Paul Revere at his silver shop. FTP, name this American artist who depicted a dangerous incident occurring in Havana harbor in his Watson and the Shark.
[A]: Fine Arts


[Q]: A Roman sarcophagus served as the inspiration for his Battle of the Centaurs, and a small figure is eating grapes out of a drunken god in his sculpture Bacchus. Hired to finish the tomb and shrine of St. Dominic in Bologna, he painted one Madonna, one featuring the infant St. John, as well as the statue Madonna with Child. St. Peter's Basilica houses one of his sculptures in which Mary holds the body of Jesus in her lap, and one of his nude statues depicts a man with a slingshot in his left hand. FTP, identify this artist of the marble David who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
[A]:
Fine Arts