1. Literature - American Renaissance and Romantic
Matthiessen, the American Renaissance. ... O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman, written in 1941. ... Generally, romanticism marks a reaction in literature, philosophy, art, religion, and politics from the neoclassicism and formal orthodoxy of the preceding period. ... Leaves of Grass was inspired largely by Emerson's writings, and in particular his essay "The Poet....
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate