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1800-1860
We will walk with our own feet
We will work with our own hands
We will speak our own minds
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Romanticism
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Values feeling and intuition over reason
Finds beauty and truth in exotic locals, the supernatural realm, and the inner world of the imagination
Popular authors of period: Washington Irving, Ralph Emerson, David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathanial Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and others.
Characteristics of American Romanticism
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Explored conflicts between good and evil, psychological effects of guilt and sin, and madness
It has been suggested that Dark Romantics present individuals as prone to sin and self-destruction, not as inherently possessing wisdom
Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne are two examples of Dark Romantics.
Dark Romanticism
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Overview of Romanticism
Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” and “Tell-Tale Heart”
Selected poems by Walt Whitman and Emily Dickenson
What we will study