American Romanticism Literary Events

  • Washington Irving publishes The Sketch Book

    Washington Irving publishes The Sketch Book
  • James Fenimore Cooper publishes The Pioneers

    James Fenimore Cooper publishes The Pioneers
  • Noah Webster publishes a landmark dictionary of American English

    Noah Webster publishes a landmark dictionary of American English
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes publishes "Old Ironsides"

    Oliver Wendell Holmes publishes "Old Ironsides"
  • John Greenleaf Whittier publishes Justice and Expediency in which he calls for the abolition of slavery

    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

    France's Alexis de Toqueville publishes Democracy in America
  • Margaret Fuller publishes Women in the Nineteenth Century

    Margaret Fuller publishes Women in the Nineteenth Century
  • Edgar Allan Poe publishes The Raven and Other Poems

    Edgar Allan Poe publishes The Raven and Other Poems
  • James Russell Lowell publishes The Biglow Papers, poems opposing the Mexican War

    James Russell Lowell publishes The Biglow Papers, poems opposing the Mexican War
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The Scarlet Letter

    Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The Scarlet Letter