[ned]

It was one of the funniest poems I have ever read.

I shall find out myself when I stop by the library in Concord. Tonight I'm shoveling manure.

[FreedominJesusChrist]

Any other American authors you want to know about? Preferably from that time era.

I personally liked the Transcendentalist-pessimists, like Hawthorne and Poe.

And if you ever get to the earlier American writers, I personally believe that John Smith's journals were greatly exaggerated and that James Fennimore Cooper's stories stunk.

[FreedominJesusChrist]

Well, I do not believe that you ever shovel manure. And I do believe that you are very intelligent and a intellectual.

[Amelia]

Tonight I'm shoveling manure.

Well, you have come to the right place! There's a lot of it on this thread!

[FreedominJesusChrist]

Have you ever read Dubliners?