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Literature has been a huge part of American Culture dating back to the beginning of the United States. Over the years, literature has emerged and each movement has different qualities that make them different from each other and set them apart from each other. Each and every movement of American Literature has its own qualities and pieces that stick out from the crowd. From the New England Renaissance to the Contemporary Movement, American Literature has shaped our culture and plays an important role in the United States' changes over the years.
The New England Renaissance is one of the first movements that swept the nation. American Literature grew into something never expected, and influenced many writers. Nature and European methods were used as key factors in writing with authors such as Longfellow, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Dickinson. Longfellow shows characteristics of the New England Renaissance movement in his writing because he writes very much like European......

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