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ROMANTICISM

ROMANTICISM. Romanticism. Artistic movement State of Mind, or both. Characteristics of romantic writing. Imagination over reason/intuition over facts. Characteristics of romantic writing. Intense interest in and reverence for nature Beauty of nature

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ROMANTICISM

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  1. ROMANTICISM

  2. Romanticism • Artistic movement • State of Mind, or both

  3. Characteristics of romantic writing • Imagination over reason/intuition over facts

  4. Characteristics of romantic writing • Intense interest in and reverence for nature • Beauty of nature • Divine or supernatural revealed in nature • Nature guides human beings • Love of nature

  5. Characteristics of romantic writing • Accent on Mystery • Strange/fantastic aspects of human experience

  6. Characteristics of romantic writing • Democracy and individualism

  7. Romantic Writers • Washington Irving • RipVan Winkle, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Devil and Tom Walker • Wm Cullen Bryant • To A Waterfowl, Thanatopsis • Edgar Allen Poe • The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher

  8. New England Renaissance: 1840-1855 • Transcendentalism -Emerson -Thoreau • Anti-transcendentalism -Hawthorne -Melville • Emily Dickinson

  9. Others • Fireside Poets -Longfellow -Whittier -Lowell -Holmes • Walt Whitman

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