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A letter mailed from Concord, Massachusetts describes this “wonderful gift” of a book as the “most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this “fortifying and encouraging” book extolled in a letter that warmly remarks, “I greet you at the beginning of a great career, which yet must have had a long foreground somewhere, for such a start.”
ANSWER: Leaves of Grass
[10e] That letter was by this transcendentalist, whose 1844 essay “The Poet” moved Whitman to write Leaves of Grass with its call to action for a new poetic genius in America. This author wrote the essay “Self-Reliance.”
ANSWER: Ralph Waldo Emerson
[10m] In his reply to Emerson, Whitman refers to him as a “dear friend” and by this title. A set of three passionate letters by Emily Dickinson are enigmatically addressed to an anonymous figure with this title.
ANSWER: Master [accept Master letters]
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