The Oxford Book of American Essays

by Brander Matthews , Benjamin Franklin , Francis Hopkinson , Washington Irving , Richard Henry Dana , Ralph Waldo Emerson , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Edgar Allan Poe , Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. , Henry David Thoreau , James Russell Lowell , Walt Whitman , Thomas Wentworth Higginson , George William Curtis , Theodore Winthrop , Charles Dudley Warner , Charles William Eliot , William Dean Howells , John Burroughs , Clarence King , Henry James , Hamilton Wright Mabie , Henry Cabot Lodge , William Crary Brownell , Martin, Edward Sandford , Samuel McChord Crothers , Theodore Roosevelt , Nicholas Murray Butler , William Peterfield Trent