In 1817,the stately poem called Thanatopsis introduced the best poet to appear in America up to that time.
A. William Cullen Bryant
B. Philip Frenean
C. Edward Taylor
D. Edgar Allan Poe
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Which essay is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson?
A. Of Studies
B. Self-Reliance
C. The American Scholar
D. The Divinity School Address
The first writings that we call American were the narratives and ______ of the early settlements.
A. journals
B. poetry
C. drama
D. folklores
Early in the seventeenth century, the English settlements in______ began the main stream of what we recognize as the American national history.
A. Virginia andPennsylvania
B. Massachusetts and New York
C. Virginia and Massachusetts
D. New York and Pennsylvania
Whose reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, havebeen regarded as the first distinct American literature written in English?
A. John Winthrop’s
B. John Smith’s
C. William Bradford’s
D. Christopher Columbus's