The American Romantic period stretches from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the ______.

单项选择题（）explores the scrupulous individualism in a world of fantastic speculation and unstable values，and gives its name to the get-rich-quick years of the post-Civil War era.

A. Innocents Abroad
B. Roughing It
C. The Gilded Age
D. The Middle Years

单项选择题As ______ saw it, poetry could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation.