Matching Pairs Authors Literary NationalismOnline version Match the correct author with his description. by Ari Brenes 1 Washington Irving 2 John Greenleaf Whittier 3 Edgar Allan Poe 4 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 5 William Collen Bryant 6 James Fenimore Cooper 7 James Russell Lowell 8 Oliver Wendell Holmes He drop out of college because his father did not have the money. He wrote complementary biographies of Christopher Columbus and George Washington He joined the army and had emotional problems. He wrote 40 articles in the Boston Newspaper. He was part of the American Anti-Slavery Society. He went to Yale, and later he joined the navy. He introduced foreign poetic forms. He got a degree from Harvard School of Medicine.