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John Smith: Virginia The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America Poor Richard's almanac Common Sense Washington Irving
Consider science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury's views on Edgar Allan Poe's “The Fall of the House of Usher”
Holmes, Oliver Wendell Henry David Thoreau: Walden Pond cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe Whitman, Walt
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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
Famous Poets and Poetic Form
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
Poetry: First Lines
Emily Dickinson, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right
Emily Dickinson
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Girl Reading On Turquoise Couch
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Chapter 4 pg 42 - Chapter header of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Published in 1884 by The American Publishing Company
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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”
poem. A poet in a Heian period kimono writes Japanese poetry during the Kamo Kyokusui No En Ancient Festival at Jonan-gu shrine on April 29, 2013 in Kyoto, Japan. Festival of Kyokusui-no Utage orignated in 1,182, party Heian era (794-1192).
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Consider science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury's views on Edgar Allan Poe's “The Fall of the House of Usher”
Learn about Edgar Allan Poe's place in the Gothic literary tradition and his influence...
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John Smith: Virginia
Map of Virginia from John Smith's The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England,...
Image courtesy of Documenting the American South, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries
The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America
Title page of Anne Bradstreet's The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America,...
From The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse, edited by John Harvard Ellis, 1867
Poor Richard's almanac
Title page for Poor Richard's almanac for 1739, written, printed, and sold...
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Common Sense
Title page from Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense, 1776.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Washington Irving
Washington Irving, 19th-century print.
Courtesy of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Prints and Photographs Division/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. LC-USZ61-1761)
Henry David Thoreau: Walden Pond cabin
Henry David Thoreau's cabin, illustration from the title page of an edition of his...
From Walden; or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau, 1854
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe, c. 1880.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZ62-11212)
Whitman, Walt
Walt Whitman, c. 1870.
Feinberg-Whitman Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-USZ62-82781)
Josh Billings, Mark Twain, Petroleum V. Nasby
(From left) Josh Billings, Mark Twain, and Petroleum V. Nasby, 1868.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZ62-57976)
Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Title page from the 1885 edition of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry...
Project Gutenberg (Text 76)
Henry James
Henry James, glass plate negative, c. 1910.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ggbain-04703)
Ida Tarbell
Ida Tarbell, 1904.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; neg. no. LC USZ 62 68572
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson, daguerreotype, c. 1847.
Amherst College Archives & Special Collections (Public Domain)
Robert Frost
Robert Frost, 1954.
Ruohomaa/Black Star
Hughes, Langston
Langston Hughes, photograph by Jack Delano, 1942.
Jack Delano—OWI/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-USZ62-43605)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Public Domain
Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston, photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 1938.
Carl Van Vechten Estate/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-van-5a52142)
Ernest Hemingway hunting in Kenya
Ernest Hemingway with a dead Cape buffalo, on safari in Kenya, 1953.
Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
William Faulkner
William Faulkner, photograph by Carl Van Vechten, c. 1954.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Carl Van Vechten Collection (Digital file no. 5a51970)
dust jacket of The Grapes of Wrath
First-edition dust jacket of The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck;...
Viking Press/Penguin Group; Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc., Merchantville, NJ
Willa Cather
Willa Cather.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Gravity's Rainbow
Cover of an edition of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow published in 2013...
Vintage Publishing Press Office/The Random House Group
Ralph Ellison
Ralph Ellison, 1952.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison, 1994.
Kathy Willens—AP/Shutterstock.com
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates, 1992.
AP/REX/Shutterstock.com
Kincaid, Jamaica
Jamaica Kincaid, 1999.
MDCarchives
Rich, Adrienne
Adrienne Rich, 1980.
K. Kendall
Rita Dove
Rita Dove in front of Thomas Jefferson's home, Monticello, near Charlottesville,...
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka, c. 1964.
AP/REX/Shutterstock.com
David Henry Hwang
David Henry Hwang, 2008.
Lia Chang
Suzan-Lori Parks
Suzan-Lori Parks, 2006.
Eric Schwabel
Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Joan Didion
Joan Didion, 2008.
David Shankbone
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