美国文学exercise 2

7.To A Waterfowl is perhaps the peak of ____’s work, it has been called by an eminent English critic (Mathew Arnold) “the most brief poem in the language.”
Exercise
1.In the early 19th century Rip Van Winkle and other stories in Sketch Book had established _____’s reputation at home and abroad, and designed the beginning of American Romanticism. 2.R.W.Emerson’s first book in 1836____, brought American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of New England Transcendentalism.
5.The central figure in the Leather stocking Tales is____, who goes by the various names of Leatherstocking, Deerslayer, Pathfinder and Hawkeye. 6.The American Romantic Period stretches from the end of the 18th century through the outburst of the American____.
8. After his death, ____became the only American to be honored with a bust in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey in London.
9. Who were regarded as the “School-room ” Poet? A. Henry W. Longfellow B. James R. Lowell C. Oliver W. Holmes D. John G. Whittier
3.____’s poems have the musical quality and romantic beauty. The Raven is his best-known poem.
4.In Washington Irving’s work ____ appeared the first modern short stories and th源自文库 first great American juvenile literature.