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Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety, these were the values that dominated much of the early American writing.
was considered as the "poet of the American Revolution." And the "Father of American Poetry.,,
In American Literature, the eighteenth century was an Age of and Revolution.
was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War.
The central figure in the Leatherstocking Tales is, who goes by the various names of Leather stocking, Deerslayer, Pathinder and Hawkeye.
Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as which is about a good-natured lazy husband who
falls into a 20-year sleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay has been regarded as "Americas Declaration of Intellectual Independence,,. It called on
American writers to write about America in a way peculiarly American.
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Like Nathaniel Hawthorne,also manages to achieve the effect of ambiguity through symbolism and allegory in his narratives.
Mark Twain B. Henry James
C. R. W. Emerson D. Herman Melville
In, Washington Irving agrees with the protagonist on his preference of the past to the present, and of a dream-like
world to the real world.
B. "Rip VanWinkle”
" Young Goodman Brown "
C. "Rappaccini's Daughter"
D. “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
C. Love and Nature
D. War and Peace