Focal Points ·Washington Irving ·naturalists James Fenimore Cooper.Sherwood Anderson and 。Transcendentalism Sinclair Lewis ·Henry David Thoreau ·T.S.Eliot ·Nathaniel Hawthorne the "Lost Generation" ·Herman Melville ·William Faulkner ·Walt Whitman ·Eugene ONeill 。Mark Twain ·African-American writersFocal Points • Washington Irving • James Fenimore Cooper • Transcendentalism • Henry David Thoreau • Nathaniel Hawthorne • Herman Melville • Walt Whitman • Mark Twain • naturalists • Sherwood Anderson and Sinclair Lewis • T. S. Eliot • the "Lost Generation" • William Faulkner • Eugene O'Neill • African-American writers