The Two Most Internationally Recognized American Writers in the 1820s

question 71

Multiple Choice

The two most internationally recognized American writers in the 1820s were

• A) Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper.
• B) Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire.
• C) Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson.
• D) Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
• E) Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.

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