The American Literary Blog

"Our readers may, if they choose, consider as our Christmas or New Year's present to them, the curious warble by Walt Whitman .&q...

James Whitcomb Riley was not long involved with politics, but he visited Washington, D.C. and the White House in 1888 and advocated for i...

Daniel L. Dawson was born in Lewiston, Pennsylvania on December 17, 1856. As an adult, he began contributing original poems to the Philad...

For her latest book, Lydia Huntley Sigourney produced over 300 pages of poems and sketches about North America, from her native state of ...

Benjamin Penhallow (B. P.) Shillaber died in Chelsea, Massachusetts on November 25, 1890, after a half a century in the world of publishi...

"Hand me my pantaloons, if you please." These were the last recorded words of Connecticut-born poet Fitz-Greene Halleck befor...

The people of Eatonton, Georgia were proud of their native son, Joel Chandler Harris , as he rose to literary fame. Best known for his Unc...