The ______ Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book, reached its height with Melville’s works, and ended with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.

The Romantic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irvings______and ended with Whitmans Leaves of Grass.

A．The Sketch Book

B．Tales of a Traveler

C．Rip Van Winkle

D．A History of New York

The Romantic Period in American Literary history started with the publication of

A．Washington living"s The Sketch Book.

B．Washington living"s Tales of a Traveler.

C．Whitman"s Leaves of Grass.

D．James Fenimore Cooper"s Leatherstocking Tales.

A、Benjamin Franklin

B、Washington Irving

C、Edgar Allan Poe

D、Walt Whitman

__________has won the nallle of“the father of American literature”．

A. Washington Irving

B. Captain John Smith

C. Benjamin Franklin

D. Henry Longfellow

A．World War I and literature.

B．A history of American literature.

C．The great works of Hemingway and John Steinbeck.

D．The effects of World War I and the Great Depression on American literature.

A、the early sixteenth century, the end of the seventeenth

B、the early seventeenth century, the end of the eighteenth

C、the late seventeenth century, the end of the eighteenth

D、the early fifteenth century, the end of the sixteenth

A、Stikcing to traditions

B、A strong sense of nationalism

C、Experimental

D、Romantic

A、modernism

B、realism

C、local colorism

D、naturalism

Why the decade of the 1920s can be termed the second renaissance in the history of American literature?