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Part IV. The Literature of Realism I.Fill in the blanks. Realism had originated in the country ________ 燼s a literary doctrine that called for reality and truth in the depiction of ordinary life. The arbiter of nineteenth century literary realism in America was_______________ . ____________ 爌robed deeply at the individual psychology of his characters, writing in a rich and intricate style that supported his intense scrutiny of complex human experience. __________ , breaking out of the narrow limits of local color fiction, described the breadth of American experience as no one had ever done before, or since. __________ had an evident influence on naturalism. It seemed to stress the animality of man, to suggest that he was dominated by the irresistible forces of evolution. The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called __________ , that is poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. In his cluster of poems called Leaves of Grass, _______ gave America its first genuine epic poem. There is no doubt that the solitary Emily Dickinson of _________ , Massachusetts , is a poet of great power and beauty. There was only one female prose writer in the nineteenth century. That was________ Harriet Beecher Stowe s masterpiece is_____________ . Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known by the pen name______________ . One of Samuel Langhorne Clemens best books_____________ is built around his experiences as a steamboat pilot. The result of Mark Twain s European trip was a series of newspaper articles, later published as a book called____________ . __________ was the first literary giant born west of the Mississippi. Mark Twains work__________ tells of the visits of an angel to the village of Eseldorf in Austria in 1590. William Sidney Porter, whose pen name was_________ , was the author of The Cop and the Anthem. Many of O. Henrys stories tell about the life of poor people in_______________ . 0. Henry sympathized with the poors lot and hated those rich who exploite