Romanticism

• Washington Irving


  The "American Goldsmith"
• Works by Washington Irving

  • A History of New York by Diedrich Knickerbocker (satire of historians)
  • Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon (including Rip Van Winkle, Sleepy Hollow)
  • The Alhambra
  • A Tour of the Praires
  • biographies of Columbus and Washington
• Works by William Cullen Bryant

  • Thanatopsis
  • Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood
  • edited New York Post
• Works by James Fenimore Cooper

  • Leatherstocking series (Pioneers, Last of the Mohicans, Prairie, Pathfinder, Deerslayer)
  • Pilot
  • Spy
  • Littlepage Manuscripts (Satanstoe, The Chainbearer, The Redskins)
• Works by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • Evangeline
  • Song of Hiawatha
  • Courtship of Miles Standish
  • translated the Divine Comedy
  • My Lost Youth
  • Village Blacksmith
  • The Building of the Ship
  • The Children's Hour
  • The Wreck of the Hesperus
  • Tales of a Wayside Inn
• Works by James Russell Lowell

  • The Biglow Papers
  • Harvard Commemoration Ode
  • Among My Books
  • A Fable for Critics
  • edited the Atlantic Monthly
• Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

  • Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
  • The Chambered Nautilus
  • The Deacon's Masterpiece or The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay
  • Elsie Venner A Romance of Destiny
  • Old Ironsides
• Works by John Greenleaf Whittier

  • Snow-Bound
  • Massachusetts to Virginia
  • Barbara Frietchie
  • Maud Muller
  • Telling the Bees
• Works by Frederick Douglass


  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
  • My Bondage and My Freedom
  • Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
• Works by William Wells Brown

  • Clotel (about racial intermarriage, first novel by black American)
• Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • The American Scholar
  • Nature
  • Address at Divinity College
  • Essays
  • Self-Reliance
  • Compensation
  • Concord Hymn
  • Days
  • Merlin
  • The Over-Soul
  • Representative Men
• Works by Henry David Thoreau

  • Walden or Life in the Woods
  • Civil Disobedience
  • Life Without Principle
• Count Alexis de Tocqueville wrote Democracy in America
• Works by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • The Scarlet Letter
  • Twice-Told Tales
  • Mosses from an Old Manse
  • House of the Seven Gables
  • Marble Faun
  • Blithedale Romance
  • Fanshawe
  • The Dolliver Romance
  • Tanglewood Tales
• Works by Herman Melville


  • Typee A Peep at Polynesian Life
  • Omoo A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas
  • Mardi and a Voyage Thither
  • Moby-Dick or the White Whale
  • Pierre or the Ambiguities
  • White Jacket or The World in a Man-of-War
  • Billy Budd Foretopman
  • Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
  • Clarel A Poem and A Pilgrimage in the Holy Land
  • The Confidence-Man His Masquerade
  • The Piazza Tales
• Works by Edgar Allan Poe


  • Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
  • The Murders in the Rue Morgue
  • The Pit and the Pendulum
  • The Purloined Letter
  • The Raven
  • The Tell-Tale Heart
  • Ulalume
  • Annabel Lee
  • The Bells
  • The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym
  • Ligeia
  • The Golden Bug
  • The Masque of the Red Death
  • The City in the Sea
• Works by Walt Whitman

  • Leaves of Grass (including When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, O Captain My Captain, Song of Myself)
  • Drum-Taps
  • Democratic Vistas
  • Specimen Days & Collect
  • Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
  • Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
  • Song of the Open Road