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American Literature looks at and depicts our American Heritage. It goes into depth what many history books could never cover. Whether it's poetry, drama, novel, short story, biography, satire, humor, or folk literature, all Literature holds a special place in man ....

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.... history, courage, and romance. They gave us a greater and in better depth insight of our past. Authors such as: Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, and Whitman, are some of Americans greatest American Literature authors. Their goals and writings may have been different, but all gave America a powerful look at our American History. Emerson, preached a gospel of individualism and self reliance. He wrote a series of essays about the unlimited powers within the soul. Hawthorne, was deeply concerned over the problems of sin and conscience. His novel, " The Scarlet Letter", was one of the most searching analyses of the soul of man in American letters. M ....