Nineteenth Century

Washintong Irving (1783-1859)

The Alhambra (1832)



James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)

The Last of the Mohicans (1826)



Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Nature (1836) "Hamatreya"



Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Walden (1854)



Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

"Young Goodman Brown" (1835)



Herman Melville (1819-1891)

Moby-Dick (1851)



Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

"A Psalm of Life" (1838)



Edgard Allan Poe (1809-1849)

"Tha Masque of the Red Death" (1842)
"The Raven"



Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)



Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)



Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

"Song of Myself" (1881)



Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"This is my letter to the World""Safe in their Alabaster Chambers"
"I taste a liquor never brewed"
"I felt a Funeral, in my Brain"
"I heard a Fly buzz - when I died"
"My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun"



Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens, 1835-1910)

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)



Henry James (1843-1916)

Daisy Miller: A Study (1878)



Kate Chopin (1850-1904)

"Desirée's Baby" (1892)



Stephen Crane (1871-1900)

"The Open Boat" (1897)