McClure’s Magazine, 1893–
Everybody’s Magazine, 1899–
Poetry Magazine, 1912–
New Republic, 1914–
CHRONOLOGICAL CHART II. AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
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– |