How Does the Textbook Describe Literature in the United States

How does the textbook describe literature in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century?

A) "An incipient pandering to European tastes"
B) "A movement dominated by fiction, with little influential poetry"
C) "A medium unaffected by transcendentalism"
D) "The first great age of American literature"
E) "An attempt at relevancy that doesn't quite attain"