American Romanticism
Values feeling and intuition over reason
Wrote The Devil and Tom Walker
Washington Irving
Everything in the world, including human beings, is a reflection of the Divine Soul.
A Transcendental View of the World
Wrote civil disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
A major event that happened during the 1800s
Trail of Tears
Wrote the Legend of Sleepy hollow
Washington Irving
Belief of Transcendentalism
Everything is a reflection of God
What genre would Civil Disobedience fall under?
Fiction
Wrote the Pit and the Pendulum
Edgar Allan Poe
Major themes of Romanticism
Revolution, Democracy, Republicanism
"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before".
Edgar Allan Poe
"He now looked around, and found most of the tall trees marked with the name of some great man of the colony, and all more or less scored by the ax".
The Devil and Tom Walker