National Literature, Ante-bellum Period

Washington Irving—first American writer to earn international fameoRip van Winkleo The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The Headless Horseman and Ichabod Crane

James Fennimore Cooper—first great American novelisto Last of the Mohicans

Edgar Allan Poeo The Raven

Nathaniel Hawthorne o The Scarlet Letter

Herman Melville oMoby Dick