Edith Wharton
American novelist, short story writer, and designer
19th-century american poets
Walt Whitman
American poet, essayist and journalist
Henry David Thoreau
American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic
Herman Melville
American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period
Robert Frost
American poet
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century
Emily Dickinson
American poet
Stephen Crane
American poet, novelist, and short story writer
Louisa May Alcott
American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo’s Boys . Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.Alcott’s family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing