Such works include, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Henry David Thoreau's Walden, the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Edgar Allan Poe's short stories (Hurley 13, 15). ...

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Significant American Romantic Writers Ralph Waldo Emerson Considered to be a founding writer and philosopher within the American romantic movement, Emerson is perhaps best known for his essays, from which emerge the grounding notions of Transcendentalism. ... Leaves of Grass was inspired largely by Emerson's writings, and in particular his essay "The Poet.... Herman Melville: an author of romantic fiction as was Hawthorne, Melville is particularly well known for his novel Moby-Dick. ...

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