Authors of American Verse

  1. Adams, Henry (1838-1918)
  2. Adams, John (1704-1740)
  3. Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848)
  4. Alcott, Amos Bronson (1799-1888)
  5. Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1836-1907)
  6. Alger, Jr., Horatio (1832-1899)
  7. Allen, Elizabeth Akers (1832-1911 )
  8. Allen, James (1739-1808)
  9. Allen, Paul (1784-1826)
  10. Allston, Washington (1779-1843)
  11. Alsop, George (1636-1673?)
  12. Arthur, T. S. (1809-1885)
  13. Barlow, Joel (1754-1812)
  14. Bates, Katharine Lee (1859-1929)
  15. Beadle, Samuel Alfred (1857-1932)
  16. Belknap, Jeremy (1744-1798)
  17. Bell, James Madison (1826-1902)
  18. Benjamin, Park (1809-1864)
  19. Benjamin, Robert C. O. (1855-1900)
  20. Bibb, Eloise A. (1878-1927)
  21. Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914)
  22. Blackson, Lorenzo Dow (b.1817)
  23. Bland, James A. (1854-1911)
  24. Bleeker, Ann Eliza (1752-1783)
  25. Blood, Benjamin Paul (1832-1919)
  26. Bodman, Manoah (1765-1850)
  27. Boker, George Henry (1823-1890)
  28. Botta, Anne C. Lynch (1815-1891)
  29. Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth (1848-1895)
  30. Brackenridge, Hugh Henry (1748-1816)
  31. Bradford, William (1590-1657)
  32. Bradstreet, Anne (1612 or 1613-1672)
  33. Brainard, John Gardiner Calkins (1796-1828)
  34. >Braithwaite, William Stanley (1878-1962)
  35. Branagan, Thomas (1174-1843)
  36. >Branch, Anna Hempstead (1875-1937)
  37. Bristol, Augusta Cooper (1835-1910)
  38. Brooks, Charles Timothy (1813-1883)
  39. Brooks, Maria Gowen (1794?-1845)
  40. Brooks, Phillips (1835-1893)
  41. Brown, William Hill (1765-1793)
  42. Brownell, Henry Howard (1820-1872)
  43. Bryant, John Howard
  44. >Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878)
  45. Burgess, Gelett (1866-1951)
  46. Butterworth, Hezekiah (1839-1905)
  47. Byles, Mather (1707-1788)
  48. Cable, George Washington (1844-1925)
  49. Campbell, Alfred Gibbs (b.1826?)
  50. Campbell, James Edwin (1867-1895)
  51. Canning, Josiah D. (1816-1892)
  52. Cannon, Noah Calwell W. (1796?-1850)
  53. Carleton, Will (1845-1912)
  54. >Carman, Bliss (1861-1929)
  55. Carryl, Charles Edward (1841-1920)
  56. Cary, Alice (1820-1871)
  57. Cary, Phoebe (1824-1871)
  58. Cawein, Madison (1865-1914)
  59. Channing II, William Ellery (1817-1901)
  60. Chapman, John Jay (1862-1933)
  61. Chivers, Thomas Holley (1809-1858)
  62. Church, Benjamin (1734-1778)
  63. Clark, Benjamin Cutler (b.1825?)
  64. Clarke, McDonald
  65. Clarke, Rebecca Sophia (1833-1906)
  66. Cliffton, William (1772-1799)
  67. Cockings, George (fl. 1758-1802)
  68. Coffin, Frank Barbour (1870?-1951)
  69. Cogswell, Mason Fitch (1761-1830)
  70. Cole, Thomas (1801-1848)
  71. Colman, Benjamin (1673-1747)
  72. Cook, Ebenezer (c. 1667-c. 1732)
  73. Cooke, Philip Pendleton (1816-1850)
  74. Cooke, Rose Terry (1827-1892)
  75. Coolbrith, Ina (1841-1928)
  76. Coolidge, Susan (1835-1905)
  77. Coombe, Thomas (1747-1822)
  78. Corrothers, James David (1869-1917)
  79. Cotter, Jr., Joseph Seamon (1895-1919)
  80. Cradock, Thomas (1718-1770)
  81. >Cranch, Christopher Pearse (1813-1892)
  82. Crane, Stephen (1871-1900)
  83. Crapsey, Adelaide (1878-1914)
  84. Crawford, Charles (1752-c. 1815)
  85. Dana, Sr., Richard Henry (1787-1879)
  86. Dandridge, Raymond Garfield
  87. Danforth, John (1660-1730)
  88. Danforth, Samuel I (1626-1674)
  89. Davidson, Lucretia Maria
  90. Davies, Samuel (1723-1761)
  91. Davis, Daniel Webster (1862-1913)
  92. Davis, John (1774-1854)
  93. Dawson, William (1704-1752)
  94. De Forest, John William (1826-1906)
  95. >Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
  96. Dickson, Samuel Henry (1798-1872)
  97. Dinsmoor, Robert (1757-1836)
  98. Dodge, Mary Mapes (1837-1905)
  99. Dorr, Julia (1825-1913)
  100. Drake, Joseph Rodman (1795-1820)
  101. >Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906)
  102. Dwight, Tomothy (1752-1817)
  103. Eastburn, James Wallis (1797-1819)
  104. >Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
  105. Emerson, William (1769-1811)
  106. Emmett, Daniel Decatur (1815-1904)
  107. Emmons, Richard (1788-?)
  108. English, Thomas Dunn (1819-1902)
  109. Evans, Nathaniel (1742-1767)
  110. Fenollosa, Ernest (1853-1908)
  111. Fessenden, Thomas Green (1771-1837)
  112. Field, Eugene (1850-1895)
  113. Fields, James Thomas (1817-1881)
  114. Finch, Francis Miles (1827-1907)
  115. >Fletcher, John Gould (1886-1950)
  116. Folger, Peter (1617-1690)
  117. Fordham, Mary Weston (b.1862?)
  118. Forest, John William De (1826-1906)
  119. Forton, Charlotte L. (1837-19114)
  120. Fortune, Michael (fl.1808)
  121. Fortune, Timothy Thomas (1856-1928)
  122. Foster, Stephen (1826-1864)
  123. Franklin, James Thomas (fl.1900)
  124. Freneau, Philip (1752-1832)
  125. Fuller, Sarah Margaret (Marchesa D'Ossoli) (1810-1850)
  126. Garland, Hamlin (1860-1940)
  127. Gilder, Richard Watson (1844-1909)
  128. Gilman, Caroline H. (1794-1888)
  129. Godfrey, Thomas (1736-1763)
  130. Goodrich, Samuel Griswold (1793-1860)
  131. Gordon, Rev. Charles Benjamin William (b.1861)
  132. Gould, Hannah (1789-1865)
  133. Graves, John (fl. 1662)
  134. Grayson, William (1788-1863)
  135. Green, Jonas (1712-1767)
  136. Green, Joseph (1706-1780)
  137. Greenwood, Grace
  138. Grimke, Charlotte L. Forten (1837-1914)
  139. Guiney, Louise Imogen (1861-1920)
  140. Hale, Sarah Josepha (Buell) (1788-1879)
  141. >Halleck, Fitz-Greene (1790-1867)
  142. Hammon, Jupiter (1711-c. 1806)
  143. >Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins (1825-1911)
  144. Harte, Bret (1836-1902)
  145. Hastings, Thomas (1784-1872)
  146. Hay, John (1838-1905)
  147. Hayne, Paul Hamilton (1830-1886)
  148. Heard, Josephine Delphine Henderson (b.1861)
  149. Henderson, Elliott Blaine
  150. Herbert, Henry William (1807-1858)
  151. Hillhouse, James (1789-1841)
  152. Hitchcock, David (1773-1849)
  153. Hoffman, Charles Fenno (1806-1884)
  154. Holland, Josiah Gilbert (1819-1881)
  155. Holly, Joseph Cephas (1825-1854)
  156. Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894)
  157. Honeywood, St. John (1763-1798)
  158. Hooper, Ellen Sturges
  159. Hopkins, Jr., John Henry (1820-1891)
  160. Hopkins, Lemuel (1750-1801)
  161. Hopkinson, Francis (1737-1791)
  162. Horton, George Moses (1797?-1883?)
  163. Hosmer, William H. C. (1814-1877)
  164. Hovey, Richard (1864-1900)
  165. Howe, Julia Ward (1819-1910)
  166. Howells, William Dean (1837-1920)
  167. Humphreys, David (1752-1818)
  168. Huntington, William Reed (1838-1909)
  169. Jackson, Helen Hunt (1830-1885)
  170. Jefferson, Wilson (1879-?)
  171. Jewett, Sarah Orne (1849-1909)
  172. >Johnson, Fenton (1888-1958)
  173. Judd, Sylvester (1813-1853)
  174. Kemble, Fanny (1809-1893)
  175. Key, Francis Scott (1779-1843)
  176. Kilmer, Joyce (1886-1918)
  177. Ladd, Joseph Brown (1764-1786)
  178. Lambert, Mary Eliza [Perine] Tucker (b.1838)
  179. >Lanier, Sidney (1842-1881)
  180. >Larcom, Lucy (1824-1893)
  181. Lathrop, Jr., John (1772-1820)
  182. Lazarus, Emma (1849-1887)
  183. Legaré, James Mathewes (1823-1859)
  184. Leland, Charles Godfrey (1824-1903)
  185. Lewis, Richard (c. 1700-1734)
  186. Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)
  187. Linn, John Blair (1777-1804)
  188. Livingston, William (1723-1790)
  189. Lodge, George Cabot (1873-1909)
  190. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882)
  191. Longfellow, Samuel (1819-1892)
  192. Low, Samuel (1765-?)
  193. Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891)
  194. Lowell, Maria White (1821-1853)
  195. Lowry, Robert (1826-1899)
  196. Markham, Edwin (1852-1940)
  197. Mason, Lowell (1792-1872)
  198. Masters, Edgar Lee (1868-1950)
  199. Mather, Cotton (1663-1728)
  200. Mathews, Cornelius (1817?-1889)
  201. May, Sophie (1833-1906)
  202. McClellan, George Marion (1860-1934)
  203. McGirt, James Ephraim (1874-1930)
  204. Meek, Alexander Beaufort (1814-1865)
  205. Melville, Herman (1819-1891)
  206. Menard, John Willis (1838-1893)
  207. Menken, Adah Isaacs (1835?-1868)
  208. Merrill, Stuart (1863-1915)
  209. Miles, Nathan (1741-1828)
  210. Millar, Gerard (fl.1906)
  211. >Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950)
  212. Miller, Joaquin (1837-1913)
  213. Mitchell, S. Weir (1829-1914)
  214. Monroe, Harriet (1860-1936)
  215. >Moody, William Vaughn (1869-1910)
  216. Moore, Alice Ruth (1875-1935)
  217. Moore, Clement Clarke (1779-1863)
  218. Moorer, Lizelia Augusta Jenkins
  219. Morrell, William (fl. 1623-1625)
  220. Morris, George Pope (1802-1864)
  221. Morton, Sarah Wentworth (1759-1846)
  222. Moulton, Louise Chandler (1835-1908)
  223. Munford, Robert (c. 1737-1783)
  224. Neal, John (1793-1876)
  225. Newell, Robert Henry (1836-1901)
  226. O'Brien, Fitz-James (1828-1862)
  227. Oakes, Urian (c.1631-1681)
  228. Odell, Jonathan (1737-1818)
  229. Odiorne, Thomas (1769-1851)
  230. Osgood, Francis Sargent (1811-1850)
  231. Paine, Jr., Robert Treat (1773-1811)
  232. Parke, John (1754-1789)
  233. Parker, Theodore (1810-1860)
  234. Paulding, James Kirke (1778-1860)
  235. Payne, Daniel Alexander (1811-1893)
  236. Payne, John Howard (1791-1852)
  237. Percival, James Gates (1795-1856)
  238. Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart (1844-1911)
  239. Piatt, John James (1835-1917)
  240. Piatt, Sarah Morgan (1836-1919)
  241. Pierpont, John (1785-1866)
  242. Pike, Albert (1809-1891)
  243. Pinkney, Edward Coote (1802-1828)
  244. Plato, Ann (b.1820?)
  245. Poe, Edgar Allen (1809-1849)
  246. Posey, Alexander L. (1873-1908)
  247. Prime, Benjamin Young (1733-1791)
  248. Purvis, T. T. (fl.1881)
  249. Pyle, Howard (1853-1911)
  250. Randall, James Ryder (1839-1908)
  251. Ray, Henrietta Cordelia (1849-1916)
  252. Read, Thomas Buchanan (1822-1872)
  253. Reason, Charles Lewis (1818-1893)
  254. >Reese, Lizette Woodworth (1856-1935)
  255. Reid, James (dates unknown)
  256. Rhodes, Jacob (b.1835?)
  257. Rich, Elisha (1740-c.1804)
  258. Rich, Richard (fl. 1609-1610)
  259. Richards, George (c. 1760-1814)
  260. Ridge, John Rollin (1827-1907)
  261. Riley, James Whitcomb (1849-1916)
  262. >Robinson, E. A. (1869-1935)
  263. Rogers, Elymas Payson (1815-1861)
  264. Rogers, John (1648-172l)
  265. Rose, Aquila (c. 1695-1723)
  266. Rosenfeld, Morris (1862-1923)
  267. Rowe, George Clinton (1853-1903)
  268. Rowson, Susanna Haswell (c.1762-1884)
  269. Ryan, Abram Joseph (1838-1886)
  270. Séjour, Victor (Juan Victor Séjour et Marco Ferrand)(1817-1874)
  271. >Sandburg, Carl (1878-1967)
  272. Sands, Robert C. (1799-1832)
  273. Sandys, George (1578-1644)
  274. Santayana, George (1863-1952)
  275. Sargent, Epes (1813-1880)
  276. >Savage, Philip Henry (1868-1899)
  277. Saxe, John Godfrey (1816-1887)
  278. Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe (1793-1864)
  279. Scollard, Clinton (1860-1932)
  280. Sears, Edmund Hamilton (1810-1876)
  281. Searson, John (1750-?)
  282. Seeger, Alan (1888-1916)
  283. Shaw, John (1778-1809)
  284. Sherman, Frank Dempster (1860-1916)
  285. Shoeman, Charles Henry (fl.1899-1900)
  286. Sidney, Robert Y. (fl.1809)
  287. Sigourney, Lydia Howard (Huntley) (1791-1865)
  288. Sill, Edward Rowland (1841-1887)
  289. Simms, William Gilmore (1806-1870)
  290. Simpson, Joshua McCarter (1820?-1876)
  291. Smith, Elihu Hubbard (1771-1798)
  292. Smith, Elizabeth Oakes (Prince) (1806-1893)
  293. Smith, Samuel Francis (1808-1895)
  294. Smith, William (1727-1803)
  295. Stansbury, Joseph (1742-1809)
  296. Stedman, Edmund Clarence (1833-1908)
  297. Stephens, Ann (1813-1886)
  298. Sterling, James (1701-1763)
  299. Stevenson, Matilda Coxe (1850-1915)
  300. Stickney, Trumbull (1874-1904)
  301. Stoddard, Elizabeth Barstow (1823-1902)
  302. Stoddard, Richard Henry (1825-1903)
  303. Story, William Wetmore (1819-1895)
  304. Tabb, John B. (1845-1909)
  305. Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878)
  306. Taylor, Edward (c. 1642-1729)
  307. Temple, George Hannibal (fl.1900)
  308. Terry, Lucy (1730-1821)
  309. Thaxter, Celia (1835-1894)
  310. Thayer, Ernest Lawrence (1863-1940)
  311. Thompson, Aaron Belford (1883-1929)
  312. Thompson, John R. (1823-1873)
  313. Thompson, Maurice (1844-1901)
  314. Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)
  315. Thorpe, Rose Hartwick (1850-1939)
  316. Timrod, Henry (1828-1867)
  317. Tompson, Benjamin (1642-1714)
  318. Torrence, Ridgely (1874-1950)
  319. Townsend, Eliza (1788-1854)
  320. Trowbridge, John Townsend (1827-1916)
  321. Trumbull, John (1750-1831)
  322. Tucker, Mary E. (1838-?)
  323. Tucker, St. George (1752-1827)
  324. Tuckerman, Frederick Goddard (1821-1873 )
  325. Turner, Henry McNeal (1834-1915)
  326. Tyler, Royall (1757-1826)
  327. Vandyne, William Johnson (fl.1891)
  328. Vashon, George Boyer (1824-1878)
  329. Very, Jones (1813-1880)
  330. >Viereck, George Sylvester (1884-1962)
  331. Walden, Alfred Islay (1847?-1884)
  332. Ware, Jr., Henry (1794-1843)
  333. Warren, Mercy Otis (1728-1814)
  334. Wasson, David Atwood (1823-1887)
  335. Watkins, James Robert (b.1821?)
  336. Wharton, Edith (1862-1937)
  337. Wheatley, Phillis (1753?-1784)
  338. White, Charles Frederick (1876-?)
  339. Whitfield, James Monroe (1822-1871)
  340. Whitman, Albery Allson (1851-1901)
  341. Whitman, Sarah Helen (Power) (1803-1878)
  342. Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)
  343. Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892)
  344. Wigglesworth, Michael (1631-1705)
  345. Wilcox, Carlos (1794-1827)
  346. >Wilcox, Ella Wheeler (1850-1939)
  347. Wilde, Richard Henry (1789-1847)
  348. Williams, Edward W. (1863-1891)
  349. Williams, John (1761-1818)
  350. Williams, Peter (fl.1809)
  351. Willis, Nathaniel Parker (1806-1867)
  352. Willson, Forceythe (1837-1867)
  353. Wilson, John (1588-1667)
  354. Winchester, Elhanan (1751-1797)
  355. Wolcott, Roger (1679-1767)
  356. Woodworth, Samuel (1785-1842)
  357. Woolsey, Sarah Chauncy (see Susan Coolidge)
  358. Worcester, Samuel (1770-1821)
  359. Work, Henry Clay (1832-1884)

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