Question

Needing help not really good with these authors and such. Questions are in comments

Answer 1

Here is the correct collocation, I am pretty sure you will agree with me 

1) My transcendentalist world view is evident in my journal, Walden. --- D. Henry David Thoreau

2) I am hailed as the Father of Free Verse. ---- F. Walt Whitman

3)  A. Nathaniel Hawthorne

4) B. Edgar Allan Poe

Do hope you will find it helpful!

Answer 2

The correct answers are:

1- D

Henry David Thoreau is one of the most important Transcendalist. He wrote "Civil Disobedience" which was based on the belief in the reliability of the human conscience that was a fundamental Transcendentalist principle.

We also published "Walden," a journal that told his experience living alone in a cabin in the woods of Massachusetts.

2- F

Walt Whitman is known as the father of free verse.

In his early 30s, Whitman decided to focus on his poetry and wrote  "Leaves of Grass," a collection of poems using free verse.

3- A

We can see Nathaniel Hawthorne writing style in his long visual description of the scene.

4- B

This excerpt clearly showscases Poe's style. It creates a dark and gloomy tone through the word choice, which was characteristic of Poe's gothic writing. The placement -the catacombs- also add to the dreary tone.