North American poets

1600 - 1624

Bradstreet, Anne (1612–72)

1750 - 1774

Freneau, Philip (1752–1832)

1775 - 1799

Wilde, Richard Henry (1789–1847)

Sigourney, Lydia (1791–1865)

Sprague, Charles (1791–1875)

Brooks, Maria Gowen (1794–1845)

Bryant, William Cullen (1794–1878)

Percival, James Gates (1795–1856)

1800 - 1824

Pinkney, Edward Coote (1802–28)

Morris, George Pope (1802–64)

Prentice, George D. (1802–70)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803–82)

Willis, Nathaniel Parker (1806–67)

Hoffman, Charles Fenno (1806–84)

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807–82)

Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807–92)

Poe, Edgar Allan (1809–49)

Bates, David (1809–70)

Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809–94)

Sears, Edmund (1810–76)

Pabodie, William Jewett (1813–70)

Emmett, Daniel Decatur (1815–1904)

Channing, William Ellery (1818–1901)

Howe, Julia Ward (1819–1910)

Whitman, Walt (1819–92)

1825 - 1849

Jackson, Helen Hunt (1830–85)

Dickinson, Emily (1830–86)

1850 - 1874

Scollard, Clinton (1860–1932)

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