Other institutional influences on American romanticism include the rise and professionalization of science, against which Romantic writers reacted. ... Aesthetically, the romantics were also in a state of revolt, primarily against the restraints of classicism and formalism. ... Significant American Romantic Writers Ralph Waldo Emerson Considered to be a founding writer and philosopher within the American romantic movement, Emerson is perhaps best known for his essays, from which emerge the grounding notions of Transcendentalism. ... Herman Melville: an author of romantic fiction as was Hawtho...

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Authors of the early 1800's used an interest in the past, deeper aspects of human psychology, and a faith in nature to express the ideals of Romantic literature. An interest in the past was one Romantic characteristic used by authors of the early 1800's, Washington Irving is an excellent example of this. ... In addition to this, Romantic literature was not only based on the past, but also deeper aspects of human psychology. ...

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According to some information in English books, the critics said the name Romantic can be misleading because the Romantics do not necessarily write about the love. ... The third element that the Romantics interest in unusual or ordinary. Furthermore, Romantics had a strong belief in democracy, a deep awareness in the past. ... Therefore, Irving succeeded in creating folktale story that is Romantic. ... Talking about the poems, the reader can recognize the poems of Edgar Allan Poe are romantic. ...

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During the Romantic period writers shared common themes which they used in their stories and poems. ... Many of the poems written during the Romantic period showed how nature is good and is in control. ... Most of the literature written during the Romantic period usually had more than one theme, and one of those themes would be how nature is related and treasured in people. ...

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The romantic period in american literature had taken place in 1830 and lasted until 1865. ... When we think about stories that are titled 'romantic' we think about love stories and intimate romance novels, but that is not what they are talking about in the American Romantic Period. Edgar Allan Poe was an american poet considered a part of the American Romantic Movement that seemed to carry a message of gothic literature and romanticism in his works. ...

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Romantics believed that man, while certainly capable of evil, was inherently good natured, but that civilization as a whole was flawed and corrupt. ... The American frontier also influenced the Romantic Movement in the early 1800s as many looked to the west as an opportunity for growth and personal freedom that Europe lacked. ... The vast unknown of the American West appealed to the Romantic followers as they saw nature as a source of wisdom and inspiration for the soul. ... The Romantic Movement saw many authors become household names. Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Edgar Allen Poe became...

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William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Copper and Edgar Allen Poe were major contributors to the Romantic Movement. Most of the romantic writings included emotions, imagination and "reveled in nature." (220) One poet and poem that applies not only nature, but life and death to emphasize its message, is William Cullen Bryant and his renowned poem "Thanotopsis". A theme that is used in nearly every literary piece is nature, which Romantic poets utilize to convey their overall message to their readers. ... He helps get the ball rolling for the Romantic period while acting as ...

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According to some information in English books, the critics said the name Romantic can be misleading because the Romantics do not necessarily write about the love. ... Romantic authors were greatly interested in elements of unusualness and things that were out of the ordinary. The Romantics also possessed a strong belief in democracy, a deep awareness in the past. ... Therefore, Irving succeeded in creating a folktale story that is Romantic. ... Romantic stories and poems help people realize their feelings and face the problems of daily life. ...

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The Dark Side of Poe Edgar Allen Poe was known as a Dark Romantic because of his style of writing. ... Poe used the literary technique of symbolism very well, which Dark Romantics were known to use quite often. ... Poe's description of the house and Roderick show the readers his true qualities as a Dark Romantic writer. ... In both, The Fall of the House of Usher and "The Raven" exemplify why Poe was considered a true Dark Romantic writer. ... This shows how many ways a writer such like Poe could address or write a story in a Dark Romantic language. ...

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Melville was pessimistic about the world like his other romantic writer peers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allen Poe. ... The pioneering spirit of Americans played a role in promoting the individualism that influenced the Romantic Movement. ... Imagination The Romantic period was very strong in Imagination. ... First American romantics, such as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, took this view as one of the four romantic values. ... This conforms with the Romantic desire to experience the Distant. ...

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Each American romantic adopted his own style and theme. ... The instability of American society also inspired the Romantic faith in nature. Nature was a place of beauty, simplicity, and truth for American Romantics. ...

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Expository Essay Have you ever thought of the romantic era of literature and what it symbolizes. ... These three elements are in two great stories, and one poem two of which are by Edgar Allen Poe and one from Nathaniel Hathorn, These three great stories of Romantic literature are "The Black Cat", "The Raven" and Dr. ... In all Romantic literature can be defined in many way's and portrayed through many different story's. Romantic literature and it's elements including the ones I have described for you are very important in the literature world and we must look for the elem...

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Authors of the early 1800's used an interest in the past, deeper aspects of human psychology, and a faith in nature to express the ideals of Romantic literature. An interest in the past was one Romantic characteristic used by authors of the early 1800's, Washington Irving is an excellent example of this. ... In addition to this, Romantic literature was not only based on the past, but also deeper aspects of human psychology. ...

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The gothic content of his writing failed to surpass the popular romantic fiction of the time, so consequently Poe was disliked immensely. ... The prose of Edgar Allan Poe's writing is symbolic and surrealistic, yet romantic. ... Although not a traditional Romantic such as Emerson and Thoureau, who put emotion over reason and nature above all, there is a melancholic strain to romanticism that applies directly to Poe. ... The dark, chaotic, and romantic worlds that he created offered an escape from what is real. ...

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American "Romanticism is crucial to American culture to the extent that the very creation of the United States has been considered an expression of romantic thought" (Matterson1). ... The aspect a reader will find evident in this writing that makes it romantic is the emphasis he puts on the beauty of nature. ... By analyzing this poem, Bryant presents ambiguity within the romantic text by purposely allowing the reader to decide the fate of the bird. ...

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Like Poe, Baudelaire disliked the romantic reverence for spontaneity and inspiration. ... Baudelaire also rejected the Romantic theme of nature worship. ... Baudelaire's rejection of Romantic themes did not extend to the Romantic reverence for nostalgia and memory. ... He states in fact in La peintre de la vie moderne that "genius is only childhood recovered at will." [2 (pp 40-43)] Baudelaire displayed a romantic view on beauty, as he would often associate it with imagination and reverie. ...

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As the romantics sought to rise above all dull realities in search of higher truth, they began a movement revolving around exotic settings, in the more natural past state, or world distant from the typical industrial age of the time. Romantics began to be able to mold worlds from their own perceptions, sometimes finding these worlds through the supernatural, or in legends or folklore. Secondly, Romantics contemplated the natural world until its dull reality vanished, solely revealing its underlying beauty and truth. Arising from these new techniques came the Romantic approach to the developmen...

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Along with setting, Poe's strange characters tell a romantic tale by their bizarre and weird qualities. ... The romantic element, symbolism is used frequently throughout "The Masque of the Red Death". ... Poe, the "father of the short story" adapted the Romantic style and revised it to what people still today are using to write their own movies, books, and novels. ...

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With his masterly art of depicting bizarre and mysterious atmosphere, Edgar Allan Poe is considered the most distinctive personage of the American Romantic Movement. ... "7 As it is known Poe embraced Romantic agony and, "everything about his short unhappy life must have confirmed him in this attitude.... Instead of harmony and unison, Romantics sought harmony of contrast, and as far as the motif of madness is concerned, it is sanity and insanity and rationality and irrationality which are contrasted through the whole short fiction of Edgar Allan Poe. ... The last reason discussed in...

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The romantic sensibility was hard to define because it was a movement that went beyond national, chronological, and artistic boundaries. ... For romantics, the imagination, spontaneity, individual feelings, and nature were of greater value than reason, logic, planning, and cultivation. ...

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In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," Poe employs repetition, symbol, and romantic elements to create a sense of hopelessness and uncertainty. ... Finally romantic elements are employed in "The Raven." ...

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Romantics placed a higher emphasis on emotion than rationality; it prefers individual over society; it attacks and questions rules; it prefers nature over city; it sees human nature as superior to civilized humans; it sees children as essentially innocent, until corrupted by their surroundings. ... Some stories that were written during the romantic period were "Young Goodman Brown", "The Black Cat", "Dr. ...

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"The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls" Romanticism supports the idea that feeling and intuition are more valuable than reason. This belief opposed all the main ideas of the thoughts that ruled the literary world for years before. Between 1800 and 1860, Romanticism's concepts were well shown through th...

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Death is defined as, "The termination or extinction of something" (American Heritage Dictionary). Edgar Allen Poe uses this description in "The Fall of the House of Usher" in different ways. Poe's intention when writing "The Fall of the House of Usher" was not to present a moral, lesson, or...

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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. ... The nineteenth century romantics- A. ... The twentieth and twenty-first century romantics A. ...

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