Click here to add your text.Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts. He spent the majority of his time walking in and around the town of Concord, although he did make a few journeys to other places. Occasionally he would be found sauntering and conversing with his mentor and friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson or Ellery Channing. Henry died of Tuberculosis a common killer of the time, he was just forty-four years of age. He died in the front parlor of his mother's home. A few of Henry David Thoreau works Cape Cod The Main Woods A Plea For Captain John Brown Slavery In Massachusetts |
(July 4, 1804 - May 19, 1864) Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer who was a master of the allegorical and symbolic tale. One of the greatest fiction writers in American literature, he is best know for "The Scarlet Letter" (1850) and "The House Of Seven Gables" (1851). Other works of Nathaniel Hawthorne Twice Told Tales Mosses From An Old Manse The Snow Image |
(1803 - 1882) Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist and poet, a leader of the philosophical movement of transcendentalism. Influenced by such schools of thought as English romanticism, neoplatonism, and Hindu philosoghy, Emerson is noted for his skill in presenting his ideas eloquently and in poetic language. Poetry by Ralph Waldo Emerson The Rodora Each And All The Snow Storm The Sphinx Threnody Give All To Love |
Emily Dickinson, whose odd and inventive poems helped to initiate modern poetry, is an enigma, a mystery, a parodox. Only ten of her poems were published in her lifetime. We know of her work only because her sister and two of her long-time friends brought them to public attention. Most of the poems we have were written in just six years, between 1858 and 1864. She bound them into small volumes she called fascicles, and forty of these were found in her room at her death. Here is a few of many poems by Emily Dickinson The Secret Dawn May-Flower Summer Shower Playmates The Chariot |
(November 29, 1832 - March 6, 1888 Louisa May Alcott is one of the greatest female writers of the 19th century. You've probably heard of her most famous book, Little Women. Not only did she write this series but several other books. Her Hospital Sketches is a moving first-person account of the life of a civil war nurse. Transcendental Wild Oats is a funny, yet sometimes subtly bitter, account of her life in a commune. Works of Louisa May Alcott Little Women Little Men Flower Fables An Old Fashioned Girl Eight Cousins Rose In Bloom |
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(November 29, 1832 - March 6, 1888 Louisa May Alcott is one of the greatest female writers of the 19th century. You've probably heard of her most famous book, Little Women. Not only did she write this series but several other books. Her Hospital Sketches is a moving first-person account of the life of a civil war nurse. Transcendental Wild Oats is a funny, yet sometimes subtly bitter, account of her life in a commune. Works of Louisa May Alcott Little Women Little Men Flower Fables An Old Fashioned Girl Eight Cousins Rose In Bloom |
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Emily Dickinson, whose odd and inventive poems helped to initiate modern poetry, is an enigma, a mystery, a parodox. Only ten of her poems were published in her lifetime. We know of her work only because her sister and two of her long-time friends brought them to public attention. Most of the poems we have were written in just six years, between 1858 and 1864. She bound them into small volumes she called fascicles, and forty of these were found in her room at her death. Here is a few of many poems by Emily Dickinson The Secret Dawn May-Flower Summer Shower Playmates The Chariot |
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(1803 - 1882) Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist and poet, a leader of the philosophical movement of transcendentalism. Influenced by such schools of thought as English romanticism, neoplatonism, and Hindu philosoghy, Emerson is noted for his skill in presenting his ideas eloquently and in poetic language. Poetry by Ralph Waldo Emerson The Rodora Each And All The Snow Storm The Sphinx Threnody Give All To Love |
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(July 4, 1804 - May 19, 1864) Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer who was a master of the allegorical and symbolic tale. One of the greatest fiction writers in American literature, he is best know for "The Scarlet Letter" (1850) and "The House Of Seven Gables" (1851). Other works of Nathaniel Hawthorne Twice Told Tales Mosses From An Old Manse The Snow Image |
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Click here to add your text.Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts. He spent the majority of his time walking in and around the town of Concord, although he did make a few journeys to other places. Occasionally he would be found sauntering and conversing with his mentor and friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson or Ellery Channing. Henry died of Tuberculosis a common killer of the time, he was just forty-four years of age. He died in the front parlor of his mother's home. A few of Henry David Thoreau works Cape Cod The Main Woods A Plea For Captain John Brown Slavery In Massachusetts |
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