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Beginning of Romaticism
Romaticism started around 1798 in New England, and is believed to have started for the French Revalution.At this time they established that the conventions of Romaticism were the disotred its free and natural devlopment -
Beginning of an Era
Romanticism began in the late 18th centery which counters the Enlightenment movement with ideas of emotion and artisticness rather than science and logic. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States. -
Edgar Allen Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.[1] He was the first well-known American wri -
Ideas of a major writer on Romaticism
Many of the major writers however did feel that there was something distinctive about their time not a shared doctrine or literary quality but a percasive intellectual an imafinative climare which some of them called "the sprit of the age" -
Definition of Romaticism
Romaticism was not a movement it was a series of movements that had dynamic impacts on art, literature, science, religion, economics, politics, and the individuals understanding of self. -
Emersons lectures
Emerson made a living as a popular lecturer in New England and much of the rest of the country. He had begun lecturing in 1833; by the 1850s he was giving as many as 80 per year.[90] He addressed the Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge and the Gloucester Lyceum, among others. Emerson spoke on a wide variety of subjects and many of his essays grew out of his lectures. He charged between $10 and $50 for each appearance, bringing him as much as $2,000 in a typical winter "season". -
Poe trying to start his writing alone
After his brother's death, Poe began more earnest attempts to start his career as a writer. He chose a difficult time in American publishing to do so.He was the first well-known American to try to live by writing alone and was hampered by the lack of an international copyright law. Publishers often pirated copies of British works rather than paying for new work by Americans.The industry was also particularly hurt by the Panic of 1837. Despite a booming growth in American -
Final Move
After traveling abroad for many years and teaching at elite colleges Henery moved to Cambridge, England for another job, this will end up being his resting place as well. -
Emersons most fertile period
Emerson wrote most of his important essays as lectures first, then revised them for print. His first two collections of essays – Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series, published respectively in 1841 and 1844 – represent the core of his thinking, and include such well-known essays as Self-Reliance, The Over-Soul, Circles, The Poet and Experience. 1830s to the mid-1840s Emerson's most fertile period. -
Poe's Genre
Poe's best known fiction works are Gothic,a genre he followed to appease the public taste.His most recurring themes deal with questions of death, including its physical signs, the effects of decomposition, concerns of premature burial, the reanimation of the dead, and mourning. Many of his works are generally considered part of the dark romanticism genre, a literary reaction to transcendentalism,which Poe strongly disliked -
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's first epic poem, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie, published in 1847, is a story of loss and devotion set against the deportation of the Acadian people in 1755. The poem elevated Longfellow to be the most famous writer in America and has had a lasting cultural impact, especially in Nova Scotia and Louisiana, where most of the poem is set. -
Hawthorne's genre
Hawthorne's works belong to romanticism or, more specifically, dark romanticism,cautionary tales that suggest that guilt, sin, and evil are the most inherent natural qualities of humanity.Many of his works are inspired by Puritan New England,Combining historical romance loaded with symbolism and deep psychological themes, bordering on surrealism. -
Paul Revere's Ride
"Paul Revere's Ride" is one of Longfellow's best known and most widely read poems. First published on the eve of the American Civil War and later the opening tale of the 22 linked narratives that comprise Longfellow's Tales of a Wayside Inn, the poem rescued a minor figure of the Revolutionary War from obscurity and made him into a national hero. -
Building of the Ship
Was published in 1850 in the works called Seaside and the Fireside. -
Career Change
Henery was very successful teacher for many years but at this time he decides to change career paths and befin full time writing. -
The Song of Hiawatha
The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem, in trochaic tetrameter, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, featuring an Indian hero -
Hawthorne's works
Much of Hawthorne's writing centers on New England, many works featuring moral allegories with a Puritan inspiration. His fiction works are considered part of the Romantic movement and, more specifically, Dark romanticism. His themes often center on the inherent evil and sin of humanity, and his works often have moral messages and deep psychological complexity. His published works include novels, short stories, and a biography of his friend Franklin Pierce. -
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts.