id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2701 View source for American literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 15466 1659 61 Writer and critic [[John Neal (writer)|John Neal]] in the early-mid nineteenth century helped advance America's progress toward a unique literature and culture, by criticizing predecessors like [[Washington Irving]] for imitating their British counterparts and influencing others like [[Edgar Allan Poe]].{{Cite book | publisher = University of Chicago Press | isbn = 0-226-46969-7 | last = Lease | first = Benjamin | title = That Wild Fellow John Neal and the American Literary Revolution | location = Chicago, Illinois | year = 1972 | page = 80}} [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] pioneered the influential [[Transcendentalism]] movement, [[Henry David Thoreau]] author of ''[[Walden]]'', was influenced by this movement. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2701.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2701.txt