Found 5 collections related to Poets, American

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was a 19th-century American poet, essayist, and journalist. The Walt Whitman manuscripts, dating from circa 1874 to 1892, comprise two autograph manuscript poems, "A Thought of Columbus" and "Come, said my Soul," and an autograph envelope. less

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American writer, poet, and critic best known for his Gothic horror short stories, such as "The Tell-Tale Heart," and poems, including "The Raven." "To Zante," dated November 6, 1840, consists of an autograph manuscript that is part of a letter. less

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) was an American poet, writer, physician, and professor who was part of the New England-based writers group called the Fireside Poets. "The Chambered Nautilus" autograph manuscript fragment, dated November 30, 1886, consists of the last stanza of Wendell's poem, along with his signature and location. less

William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) was an American poet, journalist, and editor. His autograph manuscript, dated circa the 1860s, contains a complete signed two-page autograph manuscript of his poem "Not Yet." The collection also includes two portrait engravings of Bryant and an engraving of Byrant's house in Roslyn, New York bound in a red levant morocco binding by Strikeman dating up to around 1900. less