What poet is the first African-American to publish a book of poetry, although Jupiter Hammon probably published some of his poems before she did?

What character races pell-mell past a church and across a bridge on a horse named Gunpowder?

The Phi Beta Kappa journal is named after this speech by Emerson that urged a distinctly American literature and scholarship.  What is the title of this speech, later published as an essay, that Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. called “the intellectual Declaration of Independence”?

There’s a wedding at the end of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”  Name the groom.

What New York writer and conversationalist popularized the term “Gotham” for New York City and invented the term “Knickerbocker” to refer to its residents?

What schoolteacher character had read “several books,” including Cotton Mather’s book on New England witchcraft, all the way through?

Which one of the writers had the best beard?

Collectively, what are James Fenimore Cooper’s novels about Natty Bumppo known as?

What type of sea creature is Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr speaking when he compares his soul to the creature, writing, “Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul”?

Whose first big publication was the 1809 The History of New York, by Diedrich Knickerbocker, a satirical work mocking serious histories of the period?