32. Q. Who are termed the five great American poets? A. William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell.
33. Q. Who was an entirely original figure in American literature? A. Edgar Allen Poe.
34. Q. What are the names of ten persons prominent as orators during the present century? A. Webster, Calhoun, Clay, Everett, Choate, Seward, Sumner, Winthrop, Garrison, and Phillips.
35. Q. What are the names of five prominent American historians of the present century? A. Richard Hildreth, George Bancroft, John G. Palfrey, William H. Prescott, and John Lothrop Motley.
36. Q. What three names are eminent in the literature of Arctic travel? A. Elisha Kent Kane, Charles F. Hall, and Isaac I. Hayes.
37. Q. Who was the first writer of American fiction whose works were extensively read? A. James Fenimore Cooper.
38. Q. What American author has James Russell Lowell called the greatest imaginative writer since Shakspere? A. Nathaniel Hawthorne.
39. Q. What work has had the greatest success of any American book? A. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” a novel directed against slavery. Between five and six hundred thousand copies have been sold in this country alone, and it has been forty times translated.
40. Q. Who is the most distinguished of American essayists? A. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
41. Q. Give the chief among standard editions of Shakspere that have been edited in this country. A. Those of Richard Grant White and Horace Howard Furness.