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Romanticism
1800-1860
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Characteristics of American Romanticism
• Values feeling and intuition over reason.
• Places faith in the inner experience and the power of the imagination.
• Shuns the artificiality of civilization and seeks unspoiled nature.
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Characteristics of American Romanticism, continued
• Prefers youthful innocence to educated sophistication.
• Champions of individual freedom and the worth of the individual.
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Characteristics of American Romanticism, continued
• Contemplates nature’s beauty as a path to spiritual and moral development.
• Looks backward to the wisdom of the past and distrusts progress.
• Finds beauty and truth in exotic locations, the supernatural realm, and the inner world of the imagination.
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Characteristics of American Romanticism, continued
• Sees poetry as the highest expression of the imagination.
• Finds inspiration in myth, legend, and folk culture.
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Characteristics of the American Romantic Hero
• Young or possesses youthful qualities
• Innocent and pure of purpose
• Sense of honor based on a higher principle, not on society’s rules
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Characteristics of the American Romantic Hero,
continued• Knowledge of people and of life
based on deep, intuitive understanding, not on formal learning.
• Loves nature and avoids town life
• Quests for some higher truth in the natural world
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American Romantic Poetry (Fireside Poetry)
• These poets wrote for a family audience and usually about subjects of general appeal: patriotism, home, family, nature, and religion.
• They also gave moral lessons through poetry.
• These poets were very popular in their time, but they were not very innovative. They borrowed their style from the Europeans. However, many consider them the most popular poets.
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Examples:• Oliver Wendell Holmes
• John Greenleaf Whittier
• James Russell Lowell
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow