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Leaves of Grass established Whitman as the most popular American poet of the 19th century. |
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The poem “Song of Myself” got its title from the first edition. |
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Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are written in free verse. |
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According to Emerson, man is divine in nature. |
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Whitman is granted the honor of being “the American Goldsmith” for his literary craftsmanship. |
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Thoreau, Whitman and Hawthorne are considered the three great Transcendental figures in the 19th century. |
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Whitman wanted to express some new poetical feelings and to initiate a poetic tradition in which difference should be recognized. |
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Moby Dick is difficult to read because of the sailor’s talk in the novel and the purposely old-fashioned and Elizabethan language style. |
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Besides Hawthorne, Shakespearean tragic vision also influenced Melville’s writing. |
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Transcendentalism inspired a whole generation of famous writers like Whitman, Thoreau and Mark Twain. |
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In the Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne intends to tell a love story and a story of sin. |
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Hawthorne is a master of symbolism, whish he took from the Puritan tradition and bequeathed to American literature. |
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American romanticism, such as Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne and Melville, have a lot in common in their understanding of human nature. |
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Irving’s writing shows that he was conservative and exalted disappearing past. |
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“Young Goodman Brown” seems to prove that everyone possesses some evil secrets. |
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Irving was best known for his short stories such as “Rip Van Winkle” and ”The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”. |
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It is the sketches about the Old World that made Washington Irving a household word and his fame enduring. |
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Puritanism and Calvinistic doctrine have great effects on the writing of Hawthorne. |
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The three 19th century writers who played an indispensable role in Hawthorne’s literary career are Emerson, Thoreau and Irving. |
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Though he was not a Puritan himself, Hawthorne ‘s view of man and human history originates, to a great extent, in Puritanism. |
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Thoreau was an active Transcendentalist, intensely involved in the life of his day. |
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In the early 19th century, the attitude of American writer was shaped by their New World environment and ideas from the romantic tradition of Europe. |
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Transcendentalism exalted feeling over reason, individual expression over the law and custom. |
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Transcendentalism spoke for cultural rejuvenation and against the materialism of American society. |
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he foundation of American national literature was laid by the early American romanticists. |
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American romanticism was in a way imitative: some of its writing was modeled on English and European works. |
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By the 1830s, Irving was judged as the nation’s greatest writer. |
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Irving was the only American writer of his generation who could curse the British in good humor. |
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Cooper launched three kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea tale, the historical romance and the frontier tale. |
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Cooper’s greatness in American literature lies in the fact that he created a myth about the formative period of the American nation. |
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No other American poet ever surpassed Allan Poe’s ability in the use of English as a medium of pure musical and rhythmic beauty. |
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