Unlike Classicism, which stood for order and established the foundation for architecture, literature, painting and music, Romanticism allowed people to get away from the limited, rational views of life and concentrate on an emotional and sentimental side of humanity. ... Romanticism was a diehard period of history when its seeds became planted in poetry, artwork and literature. ... They symbolize what Romanticism stood for. ... Such passages from his work indicates that poetry and literature was also used as a form of rebellion or distaste for political institutions or social conditions during...

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During the nineteenth century there was a literary transformation going on in America that changed many writers" approach and mind-set to writing. This transformation was known as know as Romanticism. William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Copper and Edgar Allen Poe were major cont...

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Definitions Transcendentalism- a system of philosophy, especially that associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and other New England writers, that emphasizes intuition or the divine Romanticism- in the arts, the style and theories of the romantic movement, or the movement itself Aphorism- a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement originating in the 18th century 11. ... Influenced by such schools of thought as English romanticism, Neoplatonism, and Hindu philosophy. ... Whitman's defiant break with traditional poetic concerns and style exerted a major influence on American t...

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They strayed away from that of classical European literature, and instead created their own, unique form of literature. The most popular and greatly appreciated form of literature was poetry. ... A major influence included English Romanticism. ... He is remembered as a phenomenon to American literature. ... They blazed the trial of which American literature traveled down, and gained the respect and integrity that American literature deserved. ...

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Romantic literature departed from the traditional materials, form and style of preceding Neo-Classic literature, embracing innovation in these areas. Instead of the serious genres, high subjects, and elevated style and decorum of the Neo-Classic period, Romanticism heralded an era of social, political and literary revolution, new beginnings and "high possibilities". ... The reference to the stars or heavens may symbolise the rigid "laws" imposed on man and poet in the preceding age of reason and restriction, whilst their weeping shows the breakdown of these barriers in the new age of Rom...

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The first poem illustrates how the nave and dreamlike visions of children were used in literature during the Romantic period. ... Tom, an innocent child, shares his dreams of angels and the salvation of the sweeps: "And by came an angel who had a bright key, And he open'd the coffins & set them all free;" This sort of social consciousness in literature, stimulated by the French Revolution, also allows Blake to show in the second poem, through an experienced narrator, the true plight of child laborers: "Crying'weep! ... I have very little experience with discussing poetry and liter...

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This led to the rapid expansion of a largely unsophisticated literary public, the rise of the popular press, and the mass production of 'popular' literature for a semi-literate 'lowbrow' readership. ... A tension in writing between the popular and the esoteric, and the popular and specialized, the commercial and the avant-garde, became a feature of twentieth-century literature. ... Before 1914, English literature and ideas were in many ways still harking back to the nineteenth century: after 1918, Modern begins to define the twentieth century. ... There is also the fact t...

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Soul are in many respects sensitive to ways of speaking and thinking about the soul [psuchê] that are not specifically philosophical or theoretical. We therefore begin with what the word 'soul' meant to speakers of Classical Greek, and what it would have been natural to think about and associate with the soul. Psyche Although willing to provide a common account of the soul in these general terms, Aristotle devotes most of his energy in De Anima to detailed investigations of the soul's individual capacities or faculties, which he first lists as nutrition, perception, and mi...

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Although he exerted a great influence on English romanticism , Blake defies characterization by school, movement, or even period. ... The curious combination of Boswell's own character (he was vainglorious, a heavy drinker, and a libertine) and his genius at biography have intrigued later critics, many of whom conclude that he is the greatest biographer in Western literature. ...

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He attended Harvard from 1911 to 1915, studying literature and writing daily. ... In his late verse--XAIPE: Seventy-One Poems (1950), 95 Poems (1958), and the posthumously published 73 Poems (1963)--Cummings effects a softer, more elegiac note, recalling his early affinity for New England Transcendentalism and English Romanticism. ...

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In order to understand and recognize the traits that scream Romanticism in "Ode on Intimations of Immortality," one must first know what they are. ... Throughout the poem "Ode on Intimations of Immortality," William Wordsworth exquisitely demonstrates many of the characteristics of Romantic literature through his use of language and vision. ...

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