The Renaissance was a rebirth to many things: art, music, literature, even religion. ... Even now though Romanticism is pulling it all together, and spitting it out in every way imaginable. ... Romanticism's been around for quite a while now, mainly due to its amazing ability to shapeshift. ... Sounds like a speech about what America should be, and it would work. But there's the reality of it all: good ideas will always be corrupted, either by those who want to take advantage of it (greed/Communism) or by those who think that they are protecting the essential idea (Romanticism...

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• Grade Level: High School

One of the best ways of monitoring these changes is through American literature. ... Romanticism Romanticism was a literary movement in response to the Age of Reason (as well as to Enlightenment). ... France, Germany, and Italy were big influences, but this became a literature of our own. ... Most of the literature from the romantic period is fiction. ... The literature from this time was quite different from Romanticism, as it focused more on the use of modern science, rather than superstition, to explain the issues surrounding nature and humankind. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

One of the best ways of monitoring these changes is through American literature. ... Romanticism Romanticism was a literary movement in response to the Age of Reason (as well as to Enlightenment). ... France, Germany, and Italy were big influences, but this became a literature of our own. ... Most of the literature from the romantic period is fiction. ... The literature from this time was quite different from Romanticism, as it focused more on the use of modern science, rather than superstition, to explain the issues surrounding nature and humankind. ...

• Word Count: 1835
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School