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The spiritual element in poetry.--William Cullen Bryant.--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.--Ralph Waldo Emerson.--Edgar Allan Poe.--John Greenleaf Whittier.--James Russell Lowell.--Bayard Taylor.--Oliver Wendell Holmes.--Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe.--American memorial lyrics: elegies.--American devotional lyrics: hymns.--Some later lyrists.