________is the author of the work “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”.
A. Washington Irving
B. James Joyce
C. Walt Whitman
D. William Butler Yeats
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‘Leaves of Grass’ commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic embodiment of________, which are written in the founding documents of both the Revolutionary War and the American Civil War.
A. the democratic ideals
B. the romantic ideals
C. the self-reliance spirits
D. the religious ideals
Which is generally regarded as the manifesto and the Bible of American Transcendentalism?
A. Thoreau’s Walden
B. Emerson’s Nature
C. Poe’s Poetic Principle
D. Thoreau’s Nature
In Emily Dickinson’s Because I Could Not Stop for Death, ______________.
A. death is personified as a devil
B. death is described as the tragic end of a person’s life
C. death is a stage of life and it leads people to the Heaven of immortality
D. death is described as a beautiful girl who couldn’t find her final destination
_________ believes that the chief aim of literary creation is beauty, and “the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”
A. Walt Whitman
B. Edgar Allen Poe
C. Anne Bradstreet
D. Ralph Waldo Emerson