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| 1814 |
| | | US lawyer Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner after seeing the British bombard Fort McHenry | |
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| 1817 |
| | | US poet William Cullen Bryant publishes Thanatopsis, written seven years previously at the age of 16 | |
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| 1820 |
| | | Washington Irving tells the story of the long sleep of Rip Van Winkle in his Sketch Book | |
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| 1820 |
| | | 7-year-old Henry Wadsworth Longfellow has a poem published in a newspaper in his home town of Portland, Maine | |
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| 1821 |
| | | The Spy, a romance set in the American Revolution, establishes the reputation of US author James Fenimore Cooper | |
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| 1823 |
| | | James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers introduces Natty Bumppo, frontiersman known for his 'leather stockings' | |
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| 1823 |
| | | An American poem, A Visit from St Nicholas, describes in every detail the modern Santa Claus | |
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| 1826 |
| | | In James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, Natty Bumppo sides with a Mohican chief | |
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| 1829 |
| | | 20-year-old Edgar Allan Poe publishes Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems | |
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| 1830 |
| | | Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem 'Old Ironsides' prompts a public response that saves the frigate from the scrapyard | |
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