“I look in vain for the poet whom I describe.”

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

The young William Cullen Bryant

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Edgar Allan Poe

James Russell Lowell

Henry David Thoreau

Hermann Melville

Oliver Wendell Holmes

John Greenleaf Whittier

“Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos…”