CHARACTERISTICSOFROMANTICISM:

ThedarksideSupernatural

EscapefromrealityEmoAon

ImaginaAonNature

Man’sconnecAontonature

Famouswriters:•  WilliamCullenBryant,•  poem“Thanatopsis”

TheFiresidePoets

JamesRussellLowell“TheFirstSnowfall”

OliverWendellHolmes“OldIronsides”

JohnGreenleafWhiOer“Snowbound”

HenryWadsworthLongfellow“APsalmofLife”“TheTideRises,TheTideFalls”

JamesFennimoreCoopernovelist

WashingtonIrvingshortstories

“RipVanWinkle”

“TheDevilandTomWalker”

RomanAcHero:reflecAonofthenewAmerica;Bold,eccentric,flawed,andsomeAmesbrooding(mysterious&

conflicted)

AmericanGothic:combinaAonofhorrorandromance;thedarksideof

mankind.DarkseOng,darkandmysteriouscharacters.

NathanielHawthorne•  WrotethefirstAmericanromance:TheScarletLeZer

•  Successfulandfamousshortstory“TheMinister’sBlackVeil”,forerunnertoTheScarletLeZer

•  PrevalentthemeinmostofhiswriAngs:Thedarksideofhumannature.

EdgarAllanPoe•  AuthorofthefirstdetecAvestory•  Mostofhisworks(poetry,shortstories)canbecategorizedasAmericanGothic.

•  Insigh\ulabilitytodelveintothehumanpsyche

ShortStoriestonote:•  “TheTell-TaleHeart”,“TheBlackCat”,“TheFalloftheHouseofUsher”,“TheMasqueoftheRedDeath”,“TheCaskofAmanAllado”

•  POETRY:“TheRaven”“AnnabelLea”

EdgarAllanPoe

Transcendentalism:emphasizedthedignityoftheindividualandthebenefitoflivingthesimplelife

HenryDavidThoreau RalphWaldoEmerson

HenryDavidThoreau:semi-autobiographicalnovelWaldenPond

“Self-Reliance”, essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist"