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I.Fillintheblanks.
1.Intheearly19thcenturyRipVanWinklehadestablished ’sreputationathomeandabroad,anddesignatedthebeginningofAmericanRomanticism.
2.Emerson’sfirstbookin1836 broughtAmericanRomanticismintoanewphase,thephaseofNewEnglandTranscendentalism.
3.Intheearly19thcentury,WashingtonIrvingwrote whichbecamethefirstworkbyanAmericanwritertowinfinancialsuccessonbothsidesoftheAtlantic.
4.In1828, publishedhisAnAmericanDictionaryoftheEnglishlanguage.
5.In1755, publishedhisremarkabledictionarynamedDictionaryoftheEnglishlanguage.
6. ’spoemshavethemusicalqualityandromanticbeauty.TheRavenishisbest-knownpoem.
7. Thecivilwarof18661~1865endedinthedefeatoftheSouthernersandtheabolitionof .
8.TheAmericanTranscendentalistsformedaclubcalled .
9.TheTranscendentalCluboftenmetat ’shomeinConcord.
10.LeavesofGrass,eitherincontentorform,isanepoch-makingworkinAmericanliterature;itsdemocraticcontentmarkedtheshiftfromto,andits
frombrokefromoldpoeticconventionstoopenanewroadforAmericanpoetry.
11.wasregardedasthefirstgreatprosestylistofAmericanromanticism.
12.At19in1802begantowriteaseriesofsketchesoressaysonthetheatreandtheNewYorksociety,usingthenameofJonathanOldstyle.
13.InWashingtonIrving’sworkappearedthefirstmodernshortstoriesandthefirstgreatAmericanjuvenileliterature.
14.Inpairs,WashingtonIrvingmetJohnHowardPayne,theAmericandramatistandactor,withwhomIrvingwrotehisbrilliantsocialcomedy,orTheMerryMonarch.
15.In1823CooperJamesFenimorewroteThePioneers,thefirstofthefivenovelsthatmakeup.Theremainingfourbooks:
TheLastofMohicans(1826),ThePrairie(1827),ThePathfinder(1840),andTheDeerslayer(1841),continuethestoryofNattyBumppo,oneofthemostfamouscharactersinAmericanfiction.
16.TheshortstoryTheLegendofSleepyHollowistakenfromWashingtonIrving’sworknamed .
17.wasthefirstAmericantoachieveaninternationalliteraryreputationaftertheRevolutionaryWar.
18.isfamousforwritingstoriesabouttheseaandtheislandsoftheSouthernPacific.Inhismasterpiece,hetellsastoryofaWhalingvoyagewhichissetasymbolicaccountoftheconflictbetweenmanandhisfate.
19.WashingtonIrving’sfirstbookappearedin1809.Itwasentitled.
20.WashingtonIrvingalsowrotetwobiographies,oneisTheLifeofOliver
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Goldsmith,andtheotheris.
21.ThefirstimportantAmericannovelistwas.
22. ’sRipVanWinkleisafantasytaleaboutamanwhosomehowsteppedoutsidethemainstreamoflife.
23.JamesFenimoreCooper’snovelwasarousingtaleaboutespionageagainsttheBritishduringtheRevolutionaryWar.
24.ThebestofJamesFenimoreCooper’ssearomanceswas.TheheroofthenovelrepresentsJohnPaulJones,thegreatnavalfighteroftheRevolutionaryWar.
25.ThecentralfigureintheLeatherstockingTalesis,whogoesbythevariousnamesofLeatherstocking,Deerslayer,PathfinderandHawkeye.
26. ToAWaterfowlisperhapsthepeakof’swork,ithasbeencalledbyaneminentEnglishcritic“themostperfectbriefpoeminthelanguage.”
27.WashingtonIrving’sworksarenumerous,buthismostsuccessfulworkisTheSketchBookOFGeoffreyCrayon,ofwhichthemostfamousandanthologizedare.
28. wasthefistAmericantogainthestatureofamajorpoetintheworldliterature.
29.AmongWilliamCullenBryant’smostimportantlaterworksarehistranslationsoftheIliadandtheintoEnglishblankverse.
30.EdgarAllanPoe’spoemisperhapsthebestexampleofonomatopoeiaintheEnglishlanguage.
31.Mostof’sstoriescanberoughlydividedintotwokinds:
talesofGothichorrororgrotesquelikeTheBlackCat,anincisiveenquiryintothecapacityofthehumanmindtooriginateitsowndestructionandTheFalloftheHouseofUsher;whiletheotherkindisstoriesofintellectorratiocinationsuchas.
32. EdgarAllanPoe’spoemwaspublishedin1845asthetitlepoemofacollection.
33. RalphEmersonwasresponsibleforbringingTranscendentalismtoNewEngland.
34. Emerson’struestdisciple,themanwhoputintopracticemanyofEmerson’stheories,wasHenryThoreau.
35.In1845,Thoreaubeganatwoyearresidenceat Pond.
36.Asuperbbook cameoutofThoreau’stwo-yearexperimentatWaldenPond.
37.FromThoreau’sConcordjailexperience,camehisfamousessay .
38.HesterPrynneistheheroineinHawthorne’snovel .
39. wasagreatAmericanTranscendentalistandrevolutionaryRomanticist,whosefirstbooknatureisthefundamentaldocumentofhisphilosophy.
40.In1850,NathanielHawthorne
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