Poetry
- Anne Bradstreet -- "To My Dear and Loving Husband"
- Emily Dickinson
- Henry Thoreau -- Walden, Civil Disobedience
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Nature
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Novels
- National Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter, The House of Seven Gables
- William Dean Howells -- The Rise of Silas Lapham
- Herman Melville
Plays
- Arthur Miller -- The Crucible, about the Salem Witch Trials