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