What should I add? remove?>Washington: Writings>Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865>Poe: Poetry and Tales>Francis Parkman (all volumes)>Henry Adams (all volumes)
>>23540360Get Poe’s essays too, he’s as good a nonfiction writer as fiction. And everything from Melville, and some Hawthorne wouldn’t hurt either. In fact dare I say it even Washington Irving can be delightful. Don’t underrate pre-Civil War American lit, it would was a unique blend of European influences in the New World, while after the Civil War the American strain becomes dominant over the European one. Obviously that can and did make for a more unique literature, but something was still lost along the way in my personal opinion that was never present in American lit again after 1865
>>23540360Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, and Jack London for American kino before modernists like Faulkner and Hemingway intruded on the scene
