History of the United States . 6. In 1846Elias Howe, a mechanic of Massachusetts,patented the sewing machine. These inven-tions were but the forerunners of innume-rable others which were soon to follow inan astonishing succes-sion that has neverbeen broken. Toward the middle of the nineteenth cen-tury, American literary productiveness passedbeyond its earlier Hmits, and a number ofwriters appeared whose originality and powerwere recognized at home and abroad. AlreadyJ. Fenimore Cooper had written his storiesof Indian life; Benjamin Franklins WTitingshad been widely welcomed ; WashingtonIrving
History of the United States . 6. In 1846Elias Howe, a mechanic of Massachusetts,patented the sewing machine. These inven-tions were but the forerunners of innume-rable others which were soon to follow inan astonishing succes-sion that has neverbeen broken. Toward the middle of the nineteenth cen-tury, American literary productiveness passedbeyond its earlier Hmits, and a number ofwriters appeared whose originality and powerwere recognized at home and abroad. AlreadyJ. Fenimore Cooper had written his storiesof Indian life; Benjamin Franklins WTitingshad been widely welcomed ; WashingtonIrving had become recognized as a masterof prose description; and William Cullenof Virginia; excelled as short Bryant, beginning with Thanatopsis at story writer and as poet, ^700 i howing, in both forms of ^hc agc of eighteen, was the earliest of anotable group of New,^, England poets,novelists, historians, and essayists, amongwhom are found the familiar names of John GreenleafWhittier, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poets; Ralph Waldo. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Born Salem, Mass., July4, 1804, of Puritan ances-try. Educated at Bow-doin College; excelled as anovelist; noted for excep-tional powers of observa-tion, careful analysis, andoriginality of Plymouth, NewHampshire, May 19, 1864. EDGAR ALLAN POE Born Boston, Jan. 19,1809, of English and Mary-land descent; raised inRichmond and educated inEngland and at University authorship, brilliant originality of conception andpresentation. Died Balti-more, Oct. 7, 1849. 264 ADMINISTRATION OF JAMES BUCHANAN Emerson, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes,essayists and poets; and Nathaniel Hawthorne, novelist. Amonghistorians the most prominent names arethose of W. H. Prescott, George Bancroft,and John Lothrop Motley. Besides these,and at odds with the New England schoolduring his stormy life, was the originalgenius, Edgar Allan Poe, poet and masterof the short story. The southern Statesproduced a number of writers whose works,wh
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