1. D
2. C
分析:细节题,Bother American Renaissance writers were less optimistic than Emerson, 说明Emerson也是 AR writer 第一个选项不认识,但是与原文第一段” RW Emerson, was actually articulating the transcendental assumption of political independence 呼应. D prophet of democracy E 选项pragmatist 不认识,但有政治影响
3. A
分析:两个人的观点应该是相同的,排除所有不同和比较的选项,细节对应原文“the transcendentalist dream unrealizable"
1.RW Emerson HD Thoreau xencumbrances ideal
2. 转折no vibrant revolution W Whitman prophet
3. S.L. 1850 N Hawthorne - antinomianism by H Prynne ->anarchy; H Melville unrealizable; Both deep sympathy