Chapter 1 Philip Freneau (1752-1832); Chapter 2 Joel Barlow (1754-1812); Chapter 3 Manoah Bodman (1765-1850); Chapter 4 John Quincy Adams (1767-1848); Chapter 5 James Kirke Paulding (1778-1860); Chapter 6 Clement Moore (1779-1863); Chapter 7 Francis Scott Key (1779-1843); Chapter 8 Washington Allston (1779-1843); Chapter 9 Johnpierpont (1785-1866); Chapter 10 Samuel Woodworth (1785-1842); Chapter 11 Richard Henry Dana (1787-1879); Chapter 12 Richard Henry Wilde (1789-1847); Chapter 12 Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867); Chapter 14 John Howard Payne (1791-1852); Chapter 15 Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865); Chapter 16 Johnneal (1793-1876); Chapter 17 Carlos Wilcox (1794-1827); Chapter 18 William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878); Chapter 19 Maria Gowen Brooks (1794?-1845); Chapter 20 Joseph Rodman Drake (1795-1820); Chapter 21 James Gates Percival (1795-1856); Chapter 22 George Moses Horton (1798?-1883?); Chapter 23 Samuel Henry Dickson (1798-1872); Chapter 24 A. Bronson Alcott (1799-1888); Chapter 25 Thomas Cole (1801-1848); Chapter 26 Edward Coote Pinkney (1802-1828); Chapter 27 George Pope Morris (1802-1864); Chapter 28 Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880); Chapter 29 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882); Chapter 30 Sarah Helen Whitman (1803-1878); Chapter 31 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864); Chapter 32 Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-1867); Chapter 33 William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870); Chapter 34 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882); Chapter 35 John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892); Chapter 36 Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849); Chapter 37 Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865); Chapter 38 Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894); Chapter 39 Thomas Holley Chivers (1809-1858); Chapter 40 Fanny Kemble (1809-1893); Chapter 41 Margaret Fuller (1810-1850); Chapter 42 Edmund Hamilton Sears (1810-1876); Chapter 43 Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813-1892); Chapter 44 Charles Timothy Brooks (1813-1883); Chapter 45 Jones Very (1813-1880); Chapter 46 Epes Sargent (1813-1880); Chapter 47 Daniel Decatur Emmett; Chapter 48 Philip Pendleton Cooke (1816-1850); Chapter 49 Josiah D. Canning (1816-1892); Chapter 50 Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862); Chapter 51 Cornelius Mathews (1817-1889); Chapter 52 William Ellery Channing (1818-1901); Chapter 53 William Wetmore Story (1819-1895); Chapter 54 James Russell Lowell (1819-1891); Chapter 55 Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910); Chapter 56 Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-1881); Chapter 57 Thomas Dunn English (1819-1902); Chapter 58 Walt Whitman (1819-1892); Chapter 59 Chronology; Biographical Notes; Note on the Texts;