American Renaissance

• Wrote the essay/lecture "Nature"

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Wrote the essay "Walden"

  Henry David Thoreau
• Nathan Hawthorne wrote several literary works including

  • "Twice Told Tales"
  • "The House of The Seventh Gables"
  • "The Blithedale Romance"
  • "The Scarlet Letter"
• Wrote the famous book "Moby Dick"

  Herman Melville
• Wrote the book "Leaves of Grass"

  Walt Whitman
• Wrote the famous academic text "American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman"

  F. O. Matthiessen