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In American Poets and Their Theology, Strong examines the lives and work of nine American poets. He provides close readings of their poems, analyzing them through an evangelical lens. Strong examines the work of William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sidney Lanier, and Walt Whitman.
“Puritanism too often lacked the recognition of a present Christ. In ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress,’ Christian expects to see his Saviour when he reaches the heavenly city, but he is destitute of his companionship on the journey thither.” (Page 45)