American Literature Kids Hoodies

Do you love Edgar Allan Poe? Do you believe Poe was one tough cuss? Show of your love of Edgar Allan Poe with the Edgar Allan Swoll t-shirt.

Famed Southern writer, William Faulkner, once said, "Wonder. Go on and Wonder." Black, Transparent background

Sylvia Plath portrait and quote: I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

Activist and poet. A leader in the Harlem Renaissance

Zora Neale Hurston portrait and quote: “If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”

Sylvia Plath portrait and quote: Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

American poet Robert Frost worked a farm in his younger years, and nature became the stage of his poetic contemplations. Frost was a four times Pulitzer Prize winner!

The Bell Jar quote by Sylvia Plath: “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”

Zitkala-Ša or Red Bird was a Native American writer, musician, educator, and activist. In her autobiographical prose, she described what happens when you are born in one culture but have to live in another. She also collected Native folk stories and legends, preserving them and raising the self-awareness of young generations. In 1926, she co-founded the National Council of American Indians and served as its president until she died in 1938. She is recognized as one of the most influential Native American activists of the twentieth century.

A Novel Parody!

Wystan Hugh Auden (1907–1973) was one of the essential poets of his generation. He was born in Great Britain and later moved to the United States. Jozef Brodsky thought he was "the greatest mind of the twentieth century". Auden won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

High contrast portrait of Emily Dickinson

The Bell Jar quote by Sylvia Plath: I am, I am, I am.

Fancy living in a wooden cabin by a pond just like Thoreau did? Me too! This design is based on an original linocut.

High contrast portrait of author Herman Melville

Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912) was born in Michigan and schooled in Sarnia, Ontario. She was a poet, an anarchist, and an early feminist.

With this image, we celebrate American poet and satirist Dorothy Parker.

With this image, we celebrate Dashiell Hammett, the father of a hard-boiled detective novel, the creator of Sam Spade, Maltese Falcon and and indirectly of the film-noir genre.

Frederick Douglass Pink Portrait | Frederick Douglass Artwork on prints, stickers, mugs, tshirts, canvases, wall art and more. Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman

Frederick Douglass Snow Portrait | Frederick Douglass Artwork on prints, stickers, mugs, tshirts, canvases, wall art and more. Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman

With this image, we celebrate American poet T. S. Eliot and his famous poem The Waste Land.

Immerse yourself in the transcendental world of Ralph Waldo Emerson with our merchandise inspired by the renowned American philosopher and writer. Embrace his philosophy of individualism, nature, and self-reliance.

Frederick Douglass Portrait | Frederick Douglass Artwork on prints, stickers, mugs, tshirts, canvases, wall art and more. Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman

Frederick Douglass Portrait | Frederick Douglass Artwork on prints, stickers, mugs, tshirts, canvases, wall art and more. Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman

With this image, we celebrate American poet T.S. Eliot.

a poem by william carlos williams

Walt Whitman: Celebrated American poet, "Leaves of Grass" author, hailed for free verse, individualism, and embracing the diversity of human experience.

Faulkner's style of narration employs the "stream of consciousness". The great writer of the American South received Nobel Prize in literature in 1949.

Add some inspirational words to your wardrobe with this motivational "Attitude Determines The Altitude Of Life" design or give it as the perfect gift! Choose your size and colour below then BUY IT NOW to place your order.

Frederick Douglass Abstract Portrait | Frederick Douglass Abstract Artwork on prints, stickers, mugs, tshirts, canvases, wall art and more. Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman

With this image, we celebrate the uniqueness of Chilean poet and writer Roberto Bolaño.

With this image, we celebrate American novelist and short story writer Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864).

There's absolutely no arsenic in the sugar bowl.

There is a feeling of lightness in the poetry of Octavio Paz, yet it is profound. Even when he uses "ordinary words", like asphalt, they acquire spiritual qualities. What looks like a love poem might as well be a meditation about death or the essence of the universe. Paz was celebrated during his life both in his native Mexico and internationally. He won the most prestigious awards you can win, like Miguel De Cervantes Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature.