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AMERICAN ROMANTICISM: INTRODUCTION

AMERICAN ROMANTICISM: INTRODUCTION

ROMANTICISM: THE MOVEMENT - dominated cultural thought from the last decade of the 18

ROMANTICISM: THE MOVEMENT - dominated cultural thought from the last decade of the 18 th century well into the first decades of the 20 th century • To a large degree, Romanticism was a reaction against the Enlightenment or Age of Reason, especially its emphasis on formal propriety, classical style, and decorum

Rationalism vs Romanticism • The rationalists believed the city to be a place to

Rationalism vs Romanticism • The rationalists believed the city to be a place to find success and selfrealization • The romantics associated the countryside with independence, moral clarity, and healthful living.

Characteristics of American Romanticism • Values feeling and intuition over reason • Places faith

Characteristics of American Romanticism • Values feeling and intuition over reason • Places faith in inner experience and the power of the imagination • Shuns the artificiality of civilization and seeks unspoiled nature • Prefers youthful innocence to educated sophistication • Champions individual freedom and the worth of the individual • Contemplates nature’s beauty as a path to spiritual and moral development

Characteristics (continued) • Looks backward to • Sees poetry as the wisdom of the

Characteristics (continued) • Looks backward to • Sees poetry as the wisdom of the highest expression of past and distrusts the imagination progress • Finds inspiration in • Finds beauty and truth myth, legend, and fold in exotic locals, the culture supernatural realm, and the inner world of the imagination

AMERICAN ROMANTICISM • Often associated with the terms “American Renaissance” and “Transcendentalism” • Poets:

AMERICAN ROMANTICISM • Often associated with the terms “American Renaissance” and “Transcendentalism” • Poets: William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson • Prose Writers: Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Herman Melville.

Transcendentalism • The idea that in determining the ultimate reality of God, the universe,

Transcendentalism • The idea that in determining the ultimate reality of God, the universe, the self, and other important matters, one must transcend, or go beyond, everyday human experience in the physical world. • Ralph Waldo Emerson influenced by ancient Greek Plato • Also based on Puritan belief and Romantics • Based on intuition; optimistic • Henry David Thoreau- Emerson’s close friend

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