ABSTRACT
Wetmore Story, John Neal, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Edgar Allan Poe ("The Rationale of Verse"). Poe lectures on "Poets and Poetry of America." Ralph Waldo Emerson completes translation of Dante's La Vita Nuova. Henry David Thoreau's translation of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes published in The Dial. Daniel Decatur Emmett's Virginia Minstrels make debut at Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City. James T. Fields admitted as junior partner of Ticknor and Company. Washington Allston dies in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
