. A history of the United States . EDGAR A. POE. GENERAL LITERATURE. 409. HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. (1807-1892), the Quaker poet, whose ballads and poems ofnature are truly American in subject and in Wendell Holmes (bornin 1809), the genial essayist,humorist, and poet; James Rus-sell Lowell (1819-1891), thesatirist, the critic, and the poet;Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), Americas greatest ro-mancer ; Edgar Allan Poe(1811-1849), the author ofweird poems and romances;Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), the philosopher, poet,and essayist, — showed that inpurely literary work Americawas
. A history of the United States . EDGAR A. POE. GENERAL LITERATURE. 409. HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. (1807-1892), the Quaker poet, whose ballads and poems ofnature are truly American in subject and in Wendell Holmes (bornin 1809), the genial essayist,humorist, and poet; James Rus-sell Lowell (1819-1891), thesatirist, the critic, and the poet;Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), Americas greatest ro-mancer ; Edgar Allan Poe(1811-1849), the author ofweird poems and romances;Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), the philosopher, poet,and essayist, — showed that inpurely literary work Americawas accomplishing much. George Bancroft (1800-1891),with his History of the United States, the first volume of which was published in 1834;^.^^:>r^^^^.^. William H. Prescott (1796- 1859), with his histories of theSpanish power in Spain and inthe New World ; Richard Hil-dreth (1807-1865), with hisHistory of the United States;John Lothrop Motley (1814-1877), with his works on theNetherlands; Francis Park-man (1823-1893), with his se-ries of volumes on Franceand England
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