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WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. [⭘] An Author at Fourteen [⭘] The Influence of his Father [⭘] Bryant’s Best Known Poems [⭘] Personal Appearance [⭘] A Long and Useful Life [⭘] ‘Thanatopsis’ [⭘] ‘Waiting By the Gate [⭘] ‘Blessed are They That Mourn’ [⭘] ‘Antiquity of Freedom’ [⭘] ‘To a Water Fowl’ [⭘] ‘Robert of Lincoln’ [⭘] ‘Drought’ [⭘] ‘The Past’ [⭘] ‘The Murdered Traveler’ [⭘] ‘The Battle-Field’ [⭘] ‘The Crowded Street’ [⭘] ‘Fitz Greene Halleck (Notice of)’ [⭘] ‘A Corn-Shucking in South Carolina’ EDGAR ALLEN POE. [⭘] Comparison with Other American Poets [⭘] Place of Birth and Ancestry [⭘] Career as a Student [⭘] The Sadness of his Life and Its Influence Upon his Literature [⭘] Conflicting Statements of his Biographers [⭘] Great as a Story Writer and as a Poet [⭘] His Literary Labors and Productions [⭘] ‘The City in the Sea’ [⭘] ‘Annabel Lee’ [⭘] ‘To Helen’ [⭘] ‘Israfel’ [⭘] ‘To One in Paradise’ [⭘] ‘Lenore’ [⭘] ‘The Bells’ [⭘] ‘The Raven’ HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. [⭘] His Place in Literature [⭘] Comparison With American and English Poets [⭘] His Education, Collegemates and Home [⭘] His Domestic Life. His Poems [⭘] Prose Works and Translations [⭘] The Wayside Inn (A view of) [⭘] His Critics, Poe, Margaret Fuller, ♦Duyckinck

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