The United States in Literature

by Thomas Jefferson, Martin Buber, Robinson Jeffers, Victor Hernández Cruz, Mark Twain, Washington Irving, H. D., Nathaniel Hawthorne, Abraham Lincoln, William Carlos Williams, John Dos Passos, Art Buchwald, Emily Dickinson, James E. Miller, Jr., O'Neill, Robert., Esther Edwards, Phyllis Wheatley, William Bartram, James Wilson Pennington, John Steinbeck, Walt Whitman, Prudencio De Pereda, Americo Paredes, Donald A. Stauffer, Spencer, Theodore, Luis Munoz Marin, Allen Tate, Robert Earl Hayden, Michael Harper, Robert Davis, Robert Creeley, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Anne Porter, Ezra Pound, George Santayana, Ambrose Bierce, Kenneth Fearing, Edgar Allan Poe, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Stephen Crane, Tennessee Williams, Langston Hughes, Herman Melville, Martin Luther King Jr., Donald Barthelme, E.B. White, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marianne Moore, Amiri Baraka, Margaret Walker, John Smith, Henry Dumas, Robert Hayden, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Taylor, Edward, John Ciardi, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Ernest Hemingway, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Updike, James Russell Lowell, Sidney Lanier, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edwin Arlington Robinson, T. S. Eliot, Richard Wright, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Frost, Countee Cullen, Elinor Wylie, James Weldon Johnson, Eudora Welty, John Crowe Ransom, Claude McKay, Mona Van Duyn, Richard Wilbur, Robert Fitzgerald, Theodore Roethke, Richard Eberhart, Howard Nemerov, William Stafford, Randall Jarrell, Edith Wharton, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Benjamin Franklin, Henry Timrod, Stephen Vincent Benét, Vachel Lindsay, James Wright, Jesse Stuart, Carson McCullers, Robert Lowell, Carl Sandburg, Theodore Dreiser, W. H. Auden, Edgar Lee Masters, Gwendolyn Brooks