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