Editing Niagara Falls (section)

===Literature===
[[File:JoseMariaHeredia-plaque-niagarafalls.JPG|thumb|right|[[José María Heredia y Heredia]] plaque at [[Table Rock, Niagara Falls|Table Rock]]]]
The Niagara Falls area features as the base camp for a German aerial invasion of the United States in the [[H. G. Wells]] novel ''[[The War in the Air]]''.<ref name="Wagar2004">{{cite book|author=W. Warren Wagar|title=H. G. Wells: Traversing Time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HExGaHDhVbUC&pg=PA140|date=September 22, 2004|publisher=Wesleyan University Press|isbn=978-0-8195-6725-3|pages=140–}}</ref> Many poets have been inspired to write about the falls.<ref>{{cite book| last = Severance| first = Frank H.| author-link = Frank Severance| date = 1899|chapter= Niagara and the Poets| title = Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier| chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=PdZCAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA275| location = Buffalo, NY| pages = 275–321}}</ref> Among them was the Cuban poet [[José María Heredia y Heredia|José Maria Heredia]], who wrote the poem "Niagara". There are commemorative plaques on both sides of the falls recognizing the poem.<ref name="Colombo1984">{{cite book|author=John Robert Colombo|title=Canadian Literary Landmarks|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_pSnAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA141|date=January 1, 1984|publisher=Dundurn|isbn=978-0-88882-073-0|page=141}}</ref> In 1818, American poet [[John Neal]] published the poem "Battle of Niagara," which is considered the best poetic description of Niagara Falls up to that time.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hayes|first=Kevin J.|editor2-last=Carlson|editor2-first=David J.|editor1-last=Watts|editor1-first=Edward|chapter=Chapter 13: How John Neal Wrote His Autobiography|page=275|title=John Neal and Nineteenth Century American Literature and Culture|publisher=Bucknell University Press|location=Lewisburg, Pennsylvania|year=2012|isbn=978-1-61148-420-5}}</ref> In 1835, as a poetical illustration [[wikisource:Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836/The Indian Girl|"The Indian Girl"]] to accompany a plate of the [[wikisource:Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836/Horse-Shoe Falls, Niagara|Horse-Shoe Falls]]—artist [[Thomas Allom]],<ref>{{cite book|last =Landon|first=Letitia Elizabeth|title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=2dBbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PP8|section=picture|year=1835|publisher=Fisher, Son & Co.}}</ref> [[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]] imagines an Indian girl who, having saved the life of a captured young European man, takes him as her husband only to be later abandoned by him. In her despair she guides her canoe over the falls in dramatic fashion: 'Upright, within that slender boat, they saw the pale girl stand, her dark hair streaming far behind—uprais’d her desperate hand.'<ref>{{cite book|last =Landon|first=Letitia Elizabeth|title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=2dBbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA19|section=text on Niagara and poetical illustration|pages=19-22|year=1835|publisher=Fisher, Son & Co.}}</ref>

[[Lydia Sigourney]] wrote two dramatic poems on the falls, ''Niagara'', in 1836 and again in her ''Scenes in my native Land'', ''Niagara'', in 1845.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/zinzendorffother00sigo/page/34/mode/2up | title=Zinzendorff, and other poems | year=1836 | publisher=New-York, Leavitt, Lord & co.; Boston, Crocker & Brewster }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/scenesinmynative00sigou/page/n19/mode/2up | title=Scenes in my native land | year=1845 }}</ref> In 1848, the Rev. C. H. A. Bulkley, of [[Mount Morris, New York]] published ''Niagara: A Poem'', a 132-page, 3,600 line blank verse poem presenting the wonders of the falls as "the theme of a single poem."<ref>{{cite book| last = Bulkley| first = C. H. A.| date = 1848| title = Niagara: A Poem| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=7ds-AAAAIAAJ| location = New York| publisher = Leavitt, Trow, & Co.}}</ref>

In 1893, Mark Twain wrote a satirical sketch called "The First Authentic Mention of Niagara Falls," in which Adam and Eve are living at the Falls.<ref>Strand, p. 71</ref>