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The American Transcendentalists formed a club called _________ . the Transcendental Club ______ was regarded as the first great prose stylist of American romanticism. Washington Irving At nineteen___________ published in his brother’s newspaper, his Jonathan Oldstyle satires of New York life. In Washington Irving’s work___________ appeared the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature. The Sketch Book The first important American novelist was____________. James Fenimore Cooper James Fenimore Cooper’s novel ___________ was a rousing tale about espionage against the British during the Revolutionary War. The Spy The best of James Fenimore Coopers sea romances was_____________. The Pilot 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 the language.” William Cullen Bryant __________ was the first American to gain the stature of a major poet in the world literature. Edgar Allan Poe’s poem____________ is perhaps the best example of onomatopoeia in the English language. The Bells Edgar Allan Poes poem____________ was published in 1845 as the title poem of a collection. The Raven From Henry David Thoreau’s Concord jail experience, came his famous essay ______. Civil Disobedience By the 1830s Washington Irving was judged the nation s greatest writer, a lofty position he later shared with James Fenimore Cooper and William Cullen Bryant. In the early nineteenth century, the attitude of American writers was shaped by their New World environment and an array of ideas inherited from the romantic tradition of Europe. As a moral philosophy, transcendentalism was neither logical nor systematical. The foundation of American national literature was laid by the early American romanticists. At mid-19th century, a cultural reawakening brought a flowering of New England. Romantic writers in the 19th century placed inc