American Romanticism Literary Events

By katedickey15

  • William Cullen Bryant publishes "Thanatopsis"

  • Washington Irving publishes The Sketch Book

  • James Fenimore Cooper publishes The Pioneers

  • Noah Webster publishes a landmark dictionary of American English

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes publishes "Old Ironsides"

  • John Greenleaf Whittier publishes Justice and Expediency in which he calls for the abolition of slavery

  • France's Alexis de Toqueville publishes Democracy in America

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson publishes his first collection, Essays, including "Self Reliance" and The Over-Soul"

  • Margaret Fuller publishes Women in the Nineteenth Century

  • Edgar Allan Poe publishes The Raven and Other Poems

  • James Russell Lowell publishes The Biglow Papers, poems opposing the Mexican War

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The Scarlet Letter

  • Herman Melville publishes The Whale, or Moby-Dick

  • Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden

  • Walt Whitman publishes the first edition of his book of poems, Leaves of Grass

  • Emily Dickinson begins to copy her poems into bound booklets

  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow publishes The Courtship of Miles Standish