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William Cullen Bryant Publishes
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Washington Irving publishes the Sketch book
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Noah Webster published a landmark dictionary of American English.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Publishes
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John Greenleaf Whittier published justice and expediency, in which he calls for the abolition of slavery.
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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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Herman Melville publishes the Whale, or Moby-Dick
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Henry David Thoreau Publishes Walden
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Emily Dickinson begins to copy her poems into bound booklets.