1. Writers of the Late Romantic Period
Images of fog are featured in Thoreau's poetry to present the bridge between Nature and heaven. ... Described in terms of the countryside, the "low-anchored cloud- has several connotations. ... In Thoreau's poetry fog serves as a metaphor of a semi-obscured realm where man and nature may unite. ... "For Thoreau the world was not a pasteboard mask hiding the golden Over-Soul [but] the basis of all philosophy, and poetry, and religion even."" ...
Between 1848 and 1855 he developed the style of poetry that won praise from Ralph Waldo Emerson and earned readers in England. ... Whitman's influence on later American poetry has been profound, both by the examples of his open forms and by his bold encompassing of subject matter that had formerly been considered unpoetic. Many of his four hundred poems contain musical terms, names of instruments, and names of composers. ...
Poe, well known today for his poetry and short stories, such as "The Pit and the Pendulum", is regarded by many to be the founder of the modern detective story. ... It is not a rejection of the existence of God, but a preference to explain an individual and the world in terms of an individual....