A History of American Literature

by Percy Holmes Boynton

J. Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)

Wm. Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)

Dates for the English Reigns

	Reign
James I	(1603–1625)
Charles I	(1625–1649)
Protectorate	(1649–1660)
Charles II	(1660–1685)
Jas. II	(1685–1689)
Wm.-Mary	(1689–1702)
Anne	(1702–1714)
George I	(1714–1727)
George II	(1727–1760)
George III	(1760–1820)
American Revolution	(1775-1780)

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CHRONOLOGICAL CHART II, American Literature in the Nineteenth Century

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The dates in the table below are derived from the printed chart and are limited to the period defined there.

	Life Span	Active Authorship	Most Important Period
Brockden Brown	1771–1810	–1810	–1801
Washington Irving	1783–1859	1807-1858	1819-1832
Fitz-Greene Halleck	1790–1867	1819-1866	1819-1831
Joseph Rodman Drake	1795–1820	1816-1820	1816-1820
J. Fenimore Cooper	1789–1851	1820-1850	1821-1831
Wm. Cullen Bryant	1794–1878	1811-1878	1831-1843
Edgar Allan Poe	1808–1849	1827–1849	1836–1849
Ralph Waldo Emerson	1803–1882	1835–1870	1835–1848
Henry David Thoreau	1817–1862	1839–1862	1849–1862
Nathaniel Hawthorne	1804–1864	1829–1864	1850–1860
John G. Whittier	1807–1892	1829–1892	1849–1866
Henry W. Longfellow	1807–1882	1824–1882	1847–1862
James R. Lowell	1819–1891	1838–1888	1848–1866
Harriet B. Stowe	1811–1896	1842–1881	1852–1861
Oliver W. Holmes	1809–1894	1836–1891	1859–1872
Richard H. Stoddard	1825–1903	1849–1890	1851–1862
Thomas B. Aldrich	1836–1907	1855–1896	1861–1873
Edmund C. Stedman	1833–1908	1860–	1862–1875
Henry Timrod	1829–1867	1857–1867	1858–1867
Paul Hamilton Hayne	1830–1886	1855–1880	1856–1872
Sidney Lanier	1842–1881	1869–1881	1869–1881
Walt Whitman	1819–1892	1855–1890	1855–1871
Bret Harte	1839–1902	1867–	1870–1880
Mark Twain	1835–1910	1867–	1869–1884
Edward Rowland Sill	1841–1887	1868–1888	1878–1883
“Joaquin” Miller	1841–1913	1869–	1881–1892
Richard Watson Gilder	1844–1909	1875–	1889–1892
Wm. Dean Howells	1837–	1849–	1883–1895
Wm. Vaughn Moody	1869–1910	1891–	1899–