American romanticism timeline By sunny499 1820 Washington Irving publishes The Sketch Book http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2048 1823 James Fenimore Cooper publishes The Pioneers https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2275/2275-h/2275-h.htm 1830 Oliver Wendell Holmes publishes "Old Ironsides" http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/owh/oldiron.html 1833 John Greenleaf Whittier publishes Justice and Expediency, in which he calls for the abolition of slavery http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37191/37191-h/37191-h.htm 1841 Ralph Waldo Emerson publishes his first collection, Essays, including"Self-Reliance"and"The Over-Soul" 1845 Edgar Allan Poe publishes The Raven and Other Poems https://www.amazon.com/Raven-Other-Poems-Edgar-Illustrated/dp/1435133382 1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes the Scarlet Letter http://www.bartleby.com/83/ 1858 Emily Dickinson begins to copy her poems into bound booklets 1858 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow publishes The Courtship of Miles Standish https://archive.org/stream/courtshipofmiles00longiala/courtshipofmiles00longiala_djvu.txt 1972 England's Mary Wollstonecraft publishes a Vindication of the Rights of woman http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3420