Cullen Bryant, born November 8, 1794; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, February 27, 1807; John Greenleaf Whittier, December 17, 1807; Edgar Allan Poe, February 19, 1809; Oliver Wendell Holmes, August 29, 1809; James Russell Lowell, February 22, 1819. Here we have a group of six: Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier, Poe, Holmes, and Lowell, arranged in the order of their birth. It will be noted that they all were born within a period of fifteen years; all but one (Bryant) within the nineteenth century; all but two (Bryant and Lowell) within the first decade of that century; all but one (Poe) lived into the second half of the nineteenth century, and he missed doing so by less than three months; all but one (Holmes) were born during the cold season of the year; all but one (Bryant) was born during the last
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