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1、4 The Romantic period of American literatureI. 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. Emersons first book in 1836_brought American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase
2、 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 remar
3、kable 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 186611865 ended in the defeat of the Southerners and the abolition of_.8. The American Transcendentalists formed a club called_.9.
4、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
5、 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 Irvings work _appeared the first modern short stories and the first great
6、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 remain
7、ing four books: The Last of Mohicans (1826), The Prairie (1827), The Pathfinder (1840), and The Deerslayer (1841), continue the story of Natty Bumppo, one of the most famous characters in American fiction.16. The short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is taken from Washington Irvings work named_.17
8、. _was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War.18. _is famous for writing stories about the sea and the islands of the Southern Pacific. In his master piece_, he tells a story of a Whaling voyage which is set a symbolic account of the conflict b
9、etween man and his fate.19. Washington Irvings first book appeared in 1809.It was entitled _.20. Washington Irving also wrote two biographies, one is The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, and the other is_.21. The first important American novelist was _.22. _s Rip Van Winkle is a fantasy tale about a man wh
10、o somehow stepped outside the main stream of life.23. James Fenimore Coopers novel _ was a rousing tale about espionage against the British during the Revolutionary War.24. The best of James Fenimore Coopers sea romances was _.The hero of the novel represents John Paul Jones, the great naval fighter
11、 of the Revolutionary War.25. The central figure in the Leatherstocking Tales is _, who goes by the various names of Leatherstocking, Deerslayer, Pathfinder and Hawkeye.26. To A Waterfowl is perhaps the peak of _s work, it has been called by an eminent English critic “the most perfect brief poem in
12、the language.”27. Washington Irvings works are numerous, but his most successful work is The Sketch Book OF Geoffrey Crayon, of which the most famous and anthologized are_.28. _ was the fist American to gain the stature of a major poet in the world literature.29. Among William Cullen Bryants most im
13、portant later works are his translations of the Iliad and the _into English blank verse.30. Edgar Allan Poes poem _is perhaps the best example of onomatopoeia in the English language.31. Most of _s stories can be roughly divided into two kinds: tales of Gothic horror or grotesque like The Black Cat,
14、 an incisive enquiry into the capacity of the human mind to originate its own destruction and The Fall of the House of Usher; while the other kind is stories of intellect or ratiocination such as _. 32. Edgar Allan Poes poem _ was published in 1845 as the title poem of a collection.33. Ralph _ Emers
15、on was responsible for bringing Transcendentalism to New England.34. Emersons truest disciple, the man who put into practice many of Emersons theories, was Henry _ Thoreau.35. In 1845, Thoreau began a two year residence at _ Pond.36. A superb book _ came out of Thoreaus two-year experiment at Walden Pond.37. From Thoreaus Concord jail experience, came his famous essay _.38. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthornes novel _.39. _ was a great American Transcendentalist and revolutionary Romanticist, whose first book nature is the fundament
