Nineteenth Century American Sonnets

American sonneteers of mid-century include Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) (the Romantic link in the Sonnet Central chain), William Cullen Bryant (1794-1898), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), Jones Very (1813-1880), Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873), and Emma Lazarus (1849-1887).

The career of George Santayana (1863-1952), like that of Thomas Hardy, bridged the centuries; included here are his philosophical sonnets from the late 1800s.

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