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William Cullen Bryant publishes "Thanatopsis." In this poem, he compares Nature to a mirror that reflects his many moods.
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Washington Irving publishes "The Sketch Book."
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Noah Webster publishes a landmark dictionary of American English.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson publishe his first collection of essays, including "Self-Reliance."
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Edgar Allan Poe publishes "The Raven and Other Poems."
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Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes "The Scarlet Letter."
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Walt Whitman publishes the first edition of his book of poems, "Leaves of Grass."
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Emiy Dickinson begins to copy her poems into bound booklets.
