James Fenimore Cooper And His Writings
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America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with
brotherhood From sea to shining sea!
-America the Beautiful, Katherine Lee Bates
The growth of American Literature was further developed in the era
of American Romanticism. In this period, stirrings of national
consciousness ap ....
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.... literature is unarguable,
as his novels were the quintessential representative of American
romanticism.
America produced many renown authors during the age of American
romanticism. During this time, writers, such as: Washington Irving,
William Cullen Bryant, Edgar Allen Poe, and James Fenimore Cooper emerged.
Romantic writers emphasized intuition, an inner perception of truth that is
independent of reason. To discover this truth, Emerson wrote in The
American Scholar (1837), a man must ....
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