American romantic poetry: Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. His publishing career began with an anonymous collection of poems, “Tamerlane and Other Poems”.

"The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow descent into madness. The raven seems to further instigate the distress with its constant repetition of the word "Nevermore". The poem makes use of a number of folk and classical references.

"The Bells" is a heavily onomatopoeic poem by Edgar Allan Poe. It is perhaps best known for the diacopic repetition of the word "bells." The poem has four parts to it; each part becomes darker and darker as the poem progresses from "the jingling and the tinkling" of the bells in part 1 to the "moaning and the groaning" of the bells in part 4.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was an American poet.

“The Song of Hiawatha” is an epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, featuring an Indian hero and loosely based on legends and ethnography of the Chippewa and other Native American peoples.

“The Song of Hiawatha” is a long narrative poem in trochaic tetrameter that, in its twenty-two sections, recounts the adventures of an American Indian hero. The poem presents a series of encounters and contests that enable Hiawatha to bring progress and blessings to his tribe and to help create peace among the other tribes. During the course of the narrative, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow weaves together many aspects of American Indian mythology concerning life, nature, and ritual. The poem is also a wonderful source for young readers of American Indian perspectives on nature and human life. Wind and cold, moon and stars, waterfalls and cornstalks are all given human qualities; thus, Longfellow succeeds in suggesting the indeterminacy of human character typical of American Indian mythology. It soon became the most popular book-length poem ever written. A poem can stir all of the senses, and the subject matter of a poem can range from being funny to being sad.

Walter "Walt" Whitman (1819 – 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse.

“Leaves of Grass” is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman. Among the poems in the collection are "Song of Myself" and "I Sing the Body Electric". Whitman spent his entire life writing “Leaves of Grass”, revising it in several editions until his death.

Particularly in "Song of Myself", Whitman emphasized an all-powerful "I" who serves as narrator. The "I" tries to relieve both social and private problems by using powerful affirmative cultural images. Originally written at a time of significant urbanization in America, “Leaves of Grass” responds to the impact urbanization has on the masses.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830 – 1886) was an American poet. Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime. Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation. Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality.

Dickinson left no formal statement of her aesthetic intentions and, because of the variety of her themes, her work does not fit conveniently into any one genre. She has been regarded as a Transcendentalist. Dickinson's poetry frequently uses humor, puns, irony and satire.

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