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Part III. The Literature of Romanticism
1. In the early nineteenth century, Washington Irving wrote ________ which be came the
first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic. 2. In 1828, __________ published his An American Dictionary of the English Language. 3. In 1755, __________ published his remarkable dictionary named Dictionary of the English Language.
4. The Civil War of 1861—1865 ended in the defeat of the Southerners and the abolition
of___________ .
5. The American Transcendentalists formed a club called _________ . 6. The Transcendental Club often met at____________ ' s Concord home. 7. ______ was regarded as the first great prose stylist of American romanticism.
8. At nineteen___________ published in his brother' s newspaper, his \Oldstyle\
satires of New York life.
9. In Washington Irving' s work___________ appeared the first modern short stories and the
first great American juvenile literature.
10. In Paris, Washington Irving met John Howard Payne, the American dramatist and actor, with
whom Irving wrote his brilliant social comedy______________ , or The Merry Monarch. 11. The short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is taken from Washington Irving' s work
named _______.
12. _________ was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the
Revolutionary War.
13. Washington Irving' s first book appeared in 1809. It was entitled _____________ . 14. Washington Irving also wrote two biographies, one is The Life of Oliver Gold smith, and the
other is____________ .
15. The first important American novelist was____________ .
16. James Fenimore Cooper' s novel ___________ was a rousing tale about espionage against
the British during the Revolutionary War.
17. The best of James Fenimore Cooper's sea romances was_____________ . The hero of the
novel represents John Paul Jones, the great naval fighter of the Revolutionary War.
18. The central figure in the Leatherstocking Tales is____________ , who goes by the various
names of Leatherstocking, Deerslayer, Pathfinder and Hawkeye.
19. \
an eminent English critic \
20. __________ was the first American to gain the stature of a major poet in the world
literature.
21. Among William Cullen Bryant's most important later works are his translations of the Iliad and the____________ into English blank verse.
22. Edgar Allan Poe' s poem____________ is perhaps the best example of onomatopoeia in the
English language.
23. Edgar Allan Poe's poem____________ was published in 1845 as the title poem of a
collection.
24. Ralph___________ Emerson was responsible for bringing transcendentalism to New
England.
25. Ralph Waldo Emerson's truest disciple, the man who put into practice many of Emerson's
theories, was____________ .
26. In 1845, Henry David Thoreau began a two-year residence at _________________ Pond. 27. A superb book entitled____________ came out of Henry David Thoreau' s two-year
experiment at Walden Pond.
28. From Henry David Thoreau' s Concord jail experience, came his famous essay ______. 29. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel _____________ .
30. Herman Melville' s novel____________ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in
pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.
31. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's first collection of poems entitled ______________
appeared in 1838.
32. The most scholarly of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow' s writings is his translation of Dante' s
______.
33. Besides lyrics and longer poems Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote dramatic works, among
which____________ is the most conspicuous.
34. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and _____________ are the only two American poets
commemorated in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.
35. After his death, __________ became the only American to be honored with a bust in the
Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.
36. The American Romantic period stretches from the end of the eighteenth century through
the outburst of the___________ .
37. The English author named___________ was, in a way, responsible for the romantic
description of landscape in American literature and the development of American Indian romance. His Waverley novels were models for American his torical romances.
38. Published in 1823, __________ was the first of the Leatherstocking Tales, in their order of
publication time, and probably the first true romance of the frontier in American literature. 39. In The Pioneers, __________ represents the ideal American, living a virtuous and free life
in God' s world.
40. In 1836, a little book came out which made a tremendous impact on the intellectual life of
America. It was entitled Nature by______________ .
41. Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay__________ has been regarded as \
Intellectual Independence\It called on American writers to write about America in a way peculiarly American.
42. Another renowned New England Transcendentalist was_____________ , a friend of Ralph
Waldo Emerson' s and his junior by some fourteen years.
43. The way in which___________ wrote The Scarlet Letter suggests that American
Romanticism adapted itself to American puritan moralism.
44. Herman Melville's world classic novel Moby Dick was dedicated to____________ , a
novelist.
45. It is said that in his late years, Herman Melville stopped writing novels and stories and
turned to poetry, ___________ is his most famous poetic work.
46. Herman Melville is best known as the author of one book named______________ , which is,
critics have agreed, one of the world's greatest masterpieces.