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Major American poets of the nineteenth century include Walt Whitman, Melville, and Emily Dickinson. Mark Twain was the first major American writer to be born in the West. Henry James achieved international recognition with novels like The Portrait of a Lady (1881). Following World War I, modernist literature rejected nineteenth-century forms ...
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Lavilla Esther Allen. Esther Saville Allen. M. Catherine Allen. Richard Alsop. Nathaniel Ames (writer) Estelle Mendell Amory. William J. Anderson. Jane Andrews (author) Joseph Kinnicutt Angell.
American Renaissance (literature) The American Renaissance period in American literature ran from about 1830 to around the Civil War. [1] A central term in American studies, the American Renaissance was for a while considered synonymous with American Romanticism [2] and was closely associated with Transcendentalism. [3]
19th-century American writers (9 C, 746 P) Pages in category "19th-century American literature" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
journalist. Signature. Walter Whitman Jr. (/ ˈhwɪtmən /; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature. Whitman incorporated both transcendentalism and realism in his writings and is often called the father of free verse. [1]
American gothic fiction is a subgenre of gothic fiction. Elements specific to American Gothic include: rationality versus the irrational , puritanism , guilt , the uncanny ( das unheimliche ), ab-humans , ghosts , and monsters .
The fireside poets – also known as the schoolroom or household poets[1] – were a group of 19th-century American poets associated with New England. These poets were very popular among readers and critics both in the United States and overseas. Their domestic themes and messages of morality presented in conventional poetic forms deeply shaped ...