The American Renaissance: When American literature found its voice

The astonishing mid-century burst — Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Emerson, Whitman, and Poe — when a young country produced a literature to rival the old world.

In this collection

• Salut Au Monde!
• Art (Poems from Timoleon)
• Egotism; or, the Bosom Serpent
• Israel Potter
• Conscience
• The Pomegranate Seeds
• A River Scene
• Benito Cereno
• The Scarlet Letter
• The March to the Sea. (December, 1864.)
• Sic Vita
• Winter Memories
• The Aurora of Guido. a Fragment
• The Devil in the Belfry
• Serenade
• The Succession of Forest Trees
• Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
• Wherefore?
• Hymn
• Roger Malvin's Burial
• The March into Virginia (Poems from Battle Pieces)
• A London Suburb
• The Landscape Garden
• The Poet
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