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Questions of the Times. Is the price of progress ever TOO HIGH? Is it patriotic to protest one’s GOVERNMENT? Does everyone have a DARK SIDE? Where do people look for TRUTH? With a partner, write your answer to these questions. We will be sharing them. .
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Questions of the Times • Is the price of progress ever TOO HIGH? • Is it patriotic to protest one’s GOVERNMENT? • Does everyone have a DARK SIDE? • Where do people look for TRUTH? With a partner, write your answer to these questions. We will be sharing them.
Patriotic and individualistic, urban and untamed, wealth and enslaved—Americans in the first half of the 19th century embodied a host of contradictions. Struggling to make sense of their complex, inconsistent society, writers of the period turned inward for a sense of truth. Their movement, known as romanticism, explored the glories of the individual spirit, the beauty of nature, and the possibilities of the imagination.
EARLY ROMANTICS FIRESIDE POETS TRANSCENDENTALISTS AMERICAN GOTHIC
WilliamCullenBryant Washington Irving James Fenimore Cooper