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4 The Romantic period of American literature I. Fill in the blanks. 1. In the early 19th century Rip Van Winkle had established __________’s reputation at home and abroad, and designated the beginning of American Romanticism. 2. Emerson’s first book in 1836____brought American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of New England Transcendentalism. 3. In the early 19th century, Washington Irving wrote ___which became the first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic. 4. In 1828, _____published his An American Dictionary of the English language. 5. In 1755, ______published his remarkable dictionary named Dictionary of the English language. 6. _______’s poems have the musical quality and romantic beauty. The Raven is his best-known poem. 7. The civil war of 18661~1865 ended in the defeat of the Southerners and the abolition of______. 8. The American Transcendentalists formed a club called______. 9. The Transcendental Club often met at _____’s home in Concord. 10. Leaves of Grass, either in content or form, is an epoch-making work in American literature; its democratic content marked the shift from ___ to ____, and its ____from broke from old poetic conventions to open a new road for American poetry. 11. ____was regarded as the first great prose stylist of American romanticism. 12. At 19 in 1802____began to write a series of sketches or essays on the theatre and the New York society, using the name of Jonathan Oldstyle. 13. In Washington Irving’s work ____appeared the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature. 14. In pairs, Washington Irving met John Howard Payne, the American dramatist and actor, with whom Irving wrote his brilliant social comedy____, or The Merry Monarch. 15. In 1823 Cooper James Fenimore wrote The Pioneers, the first of the five novels that make up ____.The remaining four books: The Last of Mohicans (1826), The Prairie (1827), The Pathfinder (1840), and The Deerslayer (