An engaging and informative account of the lives and works of three great American writers--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe--and their impact on the literary culture of the 19th century. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...