Philadelphia in 1800 -- New York -- New England -- The South -- The West -- Thomas Jefferson -- William Dunlap and his circle -- Audubon -- Washington Irving in England -- Cooper: the first phase -- New York: Bryant -- South of the Potomac -- Charleston and the southwest: Simms -- Irving and Cooper abroad -- Poe in the south -- The west: 1830-1840 -- New York: Cooper -- N.P. Willis -- Poe in the north -- Into the forties