IV. The New England Renaissance (1840-1955)
Representative works including:

  • "The Skeleton in Armor" —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
  • from Nature and Self-Reliance —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
  • from Walden and Civil Disobedience —Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
  • "The Minister's Black Veil" and "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" —Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
  • from Moby Dick —Herman Melville (1819-1891)
  • Works by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)







Sites That You May Find Useful
Brief bio of Emerson
Index of Emerson's online works
Timeline of Emerson
Index of online works Hawthorne
Resource for Hawthorne & works
Bio & overview of The Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne references
Works of Melville

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