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Confidence votes 16.6K. It is not known exactly when Edgar Allan Poe began writing poetry, but as early as 1824 he wrote the words, The requiem for the loveliest dead that ever died so young.. He was 15, and wrote them in memory of a female friend.
With the War of 1812 and an increasing desire to produce uniquely American literature and culture, a number of key new literary figures emerged, perhaps most prominently Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe. In 1836, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803â1882) started a movement known as Transcendentalism.athaniel Hawthorne (1804â1864) is notable for his masterpiece, The Scarlet Letter, a novel about adultery. Hawthorne influenced Herman Melville (1819â1891) who is notable for the books Moby-Dick and Billy Budd. America's two greatest 19th-century poets were Walt Whitman (1819â1892) and Emily Dickinson (1830â1886).