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
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
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
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
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