Game of Authors playing card, ca. 1900
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Maine Historical Society
Dramatic improvements in print technology and book distribution in the pre Civil War period were significant to Longfellow's success as a poet.
The antebellum years, which have been called the "American Renaissance," produced Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Poe, Whitman, Dickinson, and Longfellow.
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