Part III The Literature of Romanticism.docVIP

Part III. The Literature of Romanticism I. Fill in the blanks? 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. In 1828, __________ published his An American Dictionary of the English Language. In 1755, __________ published his remarkable dictionary named Dictionary of the English Language. The Civil War of 1861?865 ended in the defeat of the Southerners and the abolition of___________ . The American Transcendentalists formed a club called _________ . The Transcendental Club often met at____________ s Concord home. ______ was regarded as the first great prose stylist of American romanticism. At nineteen___________ published in his brother s newspaper, his Jonathan Oldstyle satires of New York life. In Washington Irving s work___________ appeared the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature. 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. The short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is taken from Washington Irving s work named燺______. _________ was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War. Washington Irving s first book appeared in 1809. It was entitled _____________ . Washington Irving also wrote two biographies, one is The Life of Oliver Gold smith, and the other is____________ . The first important American novelist was____________ . James Fenimore Cooper s novel ___________ was a rousing tale about espionage against the British during the Revolutionary War. The best of James Fenimore Coopers sea romances was_____________ . The hero of the novel represents John Paul Jones, the great naval fighter of the Revolutionary War. The central figure in the Leatherstocking Tales is____________ , who goes by the various names of Leatherstoc