Literary Leaders of America

American literature Amesbury Annabel Lee beauty Bob-o'-link Boston Bryant called century character charm chee Concord Cooper critical death early Emerson England English essay essayist expression eyes father fiction genius gift Hawthorne heart Holmes human humor ideal imaginative Irving Irving's Israfel land Lanier Leaves of Grass letters literary living Longfellow look Lowell lyric magazine Margaret Fuller mother Nathaniel Hawthorne native nature never night perhaps personality Pioneers Poe's poem poet poetic poetry prose R. H. Dana reader romance Scarlet Letter seems sense Sidney Lanier sing snow image social song soul spirit story stout gentleman sweet thee theme things thou thought tion Twice-told Tales Ulalume verse Violet and Peony voice volume Walt Whitman Washington Irving Whitman Whittier whole wife word writer wrote young