The Writer Who Faded to Obscurity in the Nineteenth Century

question 5

Multiple Choice

The writer who faded to obscurity in the nineteenth century but was recognized as one of America's greatest geniuses in the twentieth century was

• A) Louisa May Alcott.
• B) Henry David Thoreau.
• C) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
• D) Herman Melville.
• E) Walt Whitman.

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