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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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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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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A Descent into MaelstrÖm Edgar Allan Poe is perhaps the best-known American Romantic who worked in the Gothic mode. His stories explore the darker side of the Romantic imagination, dealing with the grotesque, the supernatural, and the horrifying. ...

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Edgar Allan Poe's macabre influenced stories disrupt the everyday flow of the human psyche. Prime examples of Poe's sadistic style of writing can be found in the short stories entitled, "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Cask of Amontillado." The two stories taunt the senses with descriptions...

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Edgar Allan Poe was the master of macabre tales. He is also widely known as a poet in the Gothic Romantic movement of the 1800s. Besides writing mysterious, terror stories, he is regarded as the father of modern detective stories. Poe received recognition throughout his lifetime; furthermore, his wo...

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Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston. His mother was Elizabeth Arnold Poe, an actress who had also been a leading lady in society. His father was David Poe, Jr., an actor who pursued a less succuessful career ruined by his drinking problems. Around Edgar's second birthday, his f...

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"The Cask of Amontillado" is a murder based on emotions hence defining the story as romantic "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge" (Jerome B et al. 70). ...

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