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1.The American Transcendentalists formed a club called _________ .

the Transcendental Club

2.______ was regarded as the first great prose stylist of American romanticism. Washington

Irving

3.At nineteen___________ published in his brother’s newspaper, his "Jonathan Oldstyle"

satires of New York life.

4.In Washington Irving’s work___________ appeared the first modern short stories and the

first great American juvenile literature. The Sketch Book

5.The first important American novelist was____________. James Fenimore Cooper

6.James Fenimore Cooper’s novel ___________ was a rousing tale about espionage against

the British during the Revolutionary War.The Spy

7.The best of James Fenimore Cooper's sea romances was_____________.The Pilot

8."To a Waterfowl" is perhaps the peak of_______________’s work; it has been called by an

eminent English critic “the most perfect brief poem in the language.”William Cullen Bryant

9.__________ was the first American to gain the stature of a major poet in the world

literature.

10.Edgar Allan Poe’s poem____________ is perhaps the best example of onomatopoeia in the

English language.The Bells

11.Edgar Allan Poe's poem____________ was published in 1845 as the title poem of a

collection. The Raven

12.From Henry David Thoreau’s Concord jail experience, came his famous essay ______.

Civil Disobedience

By the 1830s Washington Irving was judged the nation' s greatest writer, a lofty position he later shared with James Fenimore Cooper and William Cullen Bryant.

In the early nineteenth century, the attitude of American writers was shaped by their New World environment and an array of ideas inherited from the romantic tradition of Europe.

As a moral philosophy, transcendentalism was neither logical nor systematical.

The foundation of American national literature was laid by the early American romanticists.

At mid-19th century, a cultural reawakening brought a "flowering of New England". Romantic writers in the 19th century placed increasing value on the free expression of emotion and displayed increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters.

With a vast group of supporting characters, virtuous or villainous, James Fenimore Cooper made the America conscious of his past, and made the European conscious of America.

No other American poet ever surpassed Edgar Allan Poe’s ability in the use of English as a medium of pure musical and rhythmic beauty.

The Fall of the House of Usher is one of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was recognized as the leader of transcendentalist movement, but he never applied the term "Transcendentalist" to himself or to his beliefs and ideas.

In 1836, Ralph Waldo Emerson published his first book, Nature, which met with a mild reception.

Ralph Waldo Emerson's prose style was sometimes as highly individual as his poetry.

The harsh rhythms and striking images of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poetry appeal to many modern readers as artful techniques.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s writings belong to the milder aspects of the Romantic Movement.

American romanticism was in a way derivative: American romantic writing was some of them modeled on English and European works.

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s aesthetics brought about a revolution in American literature in general and in American poetry in particular.

Henry David Thoreau was an active Transcendentalist. He was by no means an "escapist" or a recluse, but was intensely involved in the life of his day.

The Scarlet Letter is set in the seventeenth century. It is an elaboration of a fact which the author took out of the life of the Puritan past.

2. Transcendentalism took their ideas from___________ .

A. the romantic literature in Europe

B. neo-Platonism

C. German idealistic philosophy

D. the revelations of oriental mysticism

ABCD

8. Transcendentalists recognized__________ as the "highest power of the soul.”

A. intuition

10. Transcendentalism appealed to those who disdained the harsh God of the Puritan ancestors, and it appealed to those who scorned the pale deity of New England

A. Transcendentalism