American Literature Timeline By annagrace.arnold Jan 1, 1836 "Nature" By Ralph Waldo Emerson Period: Jan 1, 1836 to Jan 1, 1850 Transcendentalism Jan 1, 1840 "Epitaph on the World" Henry David Thoreau Feb 18, 1885 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Period: Jan 1, 1915 to Jan 1, 1930 Modernism Period: Jan 1, 1919 to Jan 1, 1935 Harlem Renaissance Jan 1, 1920 The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost Apr 10, 1925 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Jan 1, 1937 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Jul 14, 1951 The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Jan 1, 1952 "i carry your heart with me" E.E. Cummings
