Who were some of the prominent 19th Century American Literary Figures?
Though there were many writers who shaped the face of literature in 19th century America, there were some whose influences have gone far beyond their own time. Writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allen Poe, and Herman Melville have made a large impact on what writers today put into their work.
