The Literature of the United States

Adams American Literature American writers artist authors became Born Boston British Brown century characters Chicago Civil colonial contemporaries Cooper critics culture death democracy democratic drama Dreiser E. E. Cummings early Edgar Allan Poe Edith Wharton Eliot Emerson Emily Dickinson England English essays Europe European example father Faulkner fiction George Gertrude Stein H. L. Mencken Harvard Hawthorne Hawthorne's Hemingway Henry James hero heroine Howells human humour Indian Irving John language later letters literary lived London Longfellow Lowell magazine Mailer Mark Twain Melville Melville's Moby-Dick modern narrative native Negro never novel novelist perhaps play Poe's poems poet poetry prose published Puritan reader realism Sandburg scene seemed sense Sherwood Anderson social society South Southern T. S. Eliot talent theatre theme things Thoreau Transcendentalists United verse W. D. Howells Washington Whitman William women words writing wrote Yankee York young