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3. James Fennimore Cooper (ftB%% • SJBM^ • ^?,1-789—1851, §§|g/j^%|?) • Coopers masterpiece is Leather Stocking Tales ( € .£!L ft ? (P A )) and his 1 most distinguished work is 77ie Last of the Mohicans (.{JItJiSliti: !!:^^^^ ) • 13}) Important Writers and Literary Works of Post-Romanticism /•-© 1. Ralph Waldo Emerson (S^ • •R-^H;1 • @SteJ803—1882,©®t;.,|!( Af^liLNfA.) • • • , :.,^;-^ -•^1 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 (ei^ls 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 true sense. His verse is typically untraditional and unprecedented and the themes are that of nature and meditation . 2. Walt Whitman (%^ljt • iat$Sj8194892,^|SIptA) Walt Whitman is a great democratic poet. He ia the first great Anierica.n poet to use free verse (^^y^-^^.^] |! El-iT^W in poetry . Whitman was born on a farm in Long Island