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