William Cullen Bryant was considered as a major voice of American Romanticism who would greatly influence the Transcendental Movement.  Bryant composed his perspectives to fulfill his duties as expressing elements of American Romanticism and Transcendentalism. 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). ... Although some authors possessed both elements, Bryant views appear to be different from other authors during this era. ...

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Recent texts have challenged Matthiessen's notion of an American Renaissance, pointing out that the work of major American authors of this period did not occur in a vacuum. ... Reynolds points out that a subversive literature existed prior to the work of the major authors of the American Renaissance, in the form of sensational crime novels, erotic writings, humor writing, etc. ... American Romanticism Romanticism as broadly considered arose so gradually and exhibited so many phases that a straightforward definition proves impossible. ... The economic influences on American romanticism in...

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Romanticism is a type of poetry, which is usually expressed through writing. ... Romanticism is a way of life that many people cling to, to find their "inner self" and live spiritually. ... The first thing we did when we began learning about Romanticism is we read 4 Poems, all in which the authors showed the same value of Romanticism. ... In the poem the author compares his lonely life to that of a bird of on its journey of life. The next is a poem where the author compares a flower in the woods to a human, and says how beautiful they both are, and how they need no excuse for being. ...

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