Hello friends. I'm looking into early American lit.
Can anyone recommend some introductory (preferably shorter) writing by any of the following:
>Ralph Waldo Emerson
>Nathaniel Hawthorne
>Louisa May Alcott
I'm interested in prose, essays, poems, anything you think is good and/or characteristic.
>>7731739
have you considered some of the early political writers? like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine? how about Charles Brockden Brown?
>>7731739
Hawthorne Tales & Sketches. Whatever emerson book is in print (he writes essays, so they are all short).
Dunno anything about Alcott's daughter
>>7731739
Kate Chopin