American Romanticism Literary Events By katedickey15 1820 Washington Irving publishes The Sketch Book 1823 James Fenimore Cooper publishes The Pioneers 1828 Noah Webster publishes a landmark dictionary of American English 1830 Oliver Wendell Holmes publishes "Old Ironsides" 1833 John Greenleaf Whittier publishes Justice and Expediency in which he calls for the abolition of slavery 1835 France's Alexis de Toqueville publishes Democracy in America 1845 Margaret Fuller publishes Women in the Nineteenth Century 1845 Edgar Allan Poe publishes The Raven and Other Poems 1848 James Russell Lowell publishes The Biglow Papers, poems opposing the Mexican War 1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The Scarlet Letter
