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3. James Fennimore Cooper (fSWf • fiJ^itfy • ^ffl.lT^—lSSl^ia/Jvy^) Coopers masterpiece is Leather Stocking Tales (CiS^Py^)) and his most distinguished work is The Last of the Mohicans ( .i.SlkfsffSiK.^i^^.]/) . R3) Important Writers and Literary Works of Post-Romanticism /-Q 1. Ralph Waldo Emerson (^f^ • •%^^ • 3111^,1803—1882, !§M^A 1 1 •jcim.w^) . -:. ^ -:;^. As head of the Transcendental Movement, Emerson led a group of Transcenden- talists including his best friend Henry Thoreau. Emerson was born into the family of a pastor in Boston. He traveled to many places such as Great Britain and France. In 1836, his first work , Nature (Cife § ^l*) was published, which epitomized the main doctrines of his philosophy, his the- ories and his belief in the progress of man and society. Emersons writings fall into two types, poetry and essays. As an essayist he is the most outstanding of all American writers. His prose possesses all the freshness of originality in the tine sense. His verse is typically untraditional and unprecedented and the themes are that of nature and meditation. 2. Walt Whitman (iffy^f • ffiNfS, 1819—1892, ^B-NrA) Walt Whitman is a great democratic poet. He is the first great American poet to use free verse (/PS^^^^l^ S E^if^) in poetry. Whitman was born on a farm in Long Island, New York . In 1838, he began editing his own weekly