Authors From 1800 1865

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Authors From 1800 1865
William Jennings Bryant poetry including
Thanatopsis a poem dealing with ones death.
He was the first major American poet.
Scene From Thanatopsis
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Authors From 1800 1865
James Fenimore Cooper adventure tales including
The Last of the Mohicans
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Authors From 1800 1865
Emily Dickinson shy poet whose poetry became
famous after her death. Poetry Includes To Make
a Prairie
If I Can Stop If I can stop one heart from
breaking,I shall not live in vain If I can
ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or
help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I
shall not live in vain.
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Authors From 1800 1865
Ralph Waldo Emerson A Transcendentalist who
held the optimistic belief in the goodness of
man. Works included Self-Reliance.
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Authors From 1800 1865
Margaret Fuller Transcendentalist female
equality, including Woman in the Nineteenth
Century.
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Authors From 1800 1865
Nathaniel Hawthorne dark side of life, including
Scarlet Letter.
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Authors From 1800 1865
Oliver Wendell Holmes novels, witty essays, and
poems, including Old Ironsides
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Authors From 1800 1865
Washington Irving fiction, including Rip Van
Winkle and Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
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Authors From 1800 1865
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poetry, including
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.
Excerpt from The Midnight Ride of Paul
Revere Listen my children and you shall hear   
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,    On the
eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five    Hardly
a man is now alive    Who remembers that famous
day and year.     He said to his friend, "If the
British march    By land or sea from the town
to-night,    Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry
arch    Of the North Church tower as a signal
light,--    One if by land, and two if by sea 
  And I on the opposite shore will be,    Ready
to ride and spread the alarm    Through every
Middlesex village and farm,    For the country
folk to be up and to arm."
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Authors From 1800 1865
James Russell Lowell abolitionist poet poems
include Bigelow Papers about the Mexican War.
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Authors From 1800 1865
Herman Melville novels attacking social
injustice, including Moby Dick.
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Authors From 1800 1865
Edgar Allen Poe detective and mystery stories,
as well as poetry, including The Raven
Excerpt from The Raven Once upon a midnight
dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,Over
many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten
lore--While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly
there came a tapping,As of someone gently
rapping, rapping at my chamber door."'Tis some
visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber
door--        only this and nothing more."Ah,
distinctly I remember it was in the bleak
DecemberAnd each separate dying ember wrought
its ghost upon the floor.Eagerly I wished the
morrow--vainly I had sought to borrowFrom my
books surcease of sorrow--sorrow for the lost
Lenore--For the rare and radient maiden whom the
angels name Lenore--        Nameless here
forevermore.
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Authors From 1800 1865
Harriet Beecher Stowe novelist whose most
famous novel is Uncle Toms Cabin, dramatizing
the evil of slavery. When Abraham Lincoln met
her in 1852 He said, So youre the little woman
who wrote the book that make this great war.
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Authors From 1800 1865
Henry David Thoreau individualism, including
Walden. Protested the Mexican War by refusing
to pay tax that would help support it. Was jailed
for civil disobedience.
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Authors From 1800 1865
Walt Whitman poetry of love, life, America, and
common man includes Leaves of Grass.
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Authors From 1800 1865
John Greenleaf Whittier chief poet of the
abolitionist movement, including The Kansas
Emigrants.