.1.Emerson was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.2.The convention of the desire for an escape from society and a return to nature inAmerican literature is particularly evident in Coopers Leather-stocking Tales.3.Irving was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation in the American literary history4.Hawthornes works are marked by a preoccupation with the Calvinistic5.Irvings Rip Van Winkle got ideas from German legends.6.Irving has been re
