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Literature: An American Renaissance

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From: American Eras
Date: 19970101
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Literature: An American Renaissance

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American Literature for an American People. In the early years of the nineteenth century American authors such as William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), Washington Irving (1783-1759), and James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) achieved critical recognition in America and England for their literary merits. While they saw the need for an American literature that treated issues and depicted scenes that were distinctively American, these writers modeled their own poetry or fiction after that of Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) and other well-known ...

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