Rationalism
They experienced conflict between good and evil, psychological effects of sin and guilt, and madness
What are Dark Romantics?
The name given to the school of thought that values feelings and intuition over reason.
What is Romanticism?
The leader of the Transcendentalists
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Romantics believed they could discover this with their imaginations?
What is truth?
Emerson believed we could find God directly here
What is Nature?
Eternal truths are waiting to be discovered here
What is the American wilderness?
To the Romantic mind, this was the highest embodiment of imagination.
What is poetry?
According to Transcendentalists, everything in the world is a reflection of this
What is the Divine Soul?
Exemplified by a real life hero who was worldly, educated, sophisticated and bent on making a place for himself.
What is a rationalist hero?
Romantic minds often contrasted this with poetry.
What is science?
This is the capacity to know things spontaneously and immediately through emotions.
What is intuition?
This is the flaw of most American romantic heroes
What is a lack of success with women?
Three anti-transcendentalists, also known as dark romantics
Who are Poe, Hawthorne and Melville?
Romanticism began here
What is Germany?
According to transcendentalists, we are capable of evil because we have separated ourselves from this.
What is God?