Romanticism

A movement in literature and art during the 18th and 19th century

European RomanticsWilliam BlakeWilliam WordsworthSamuel Taylor ColeridgePercy ShelleyMary Shelley

Romanticism

American RomanticsRalph Waldo Emerson |||||| Nathaniel HawthorneFrederick Douglass |||||| Walt WhitmanEdgar Allen Poe

A reaction to the Industrial Revolution, aristocratic ideals of the Enlightenment, and the scientific rationalization of nature

Started first in Europe and then moved to America in the 19th century. American Romanticism is just as multi-faceted as European Romanticism

-Values feeling over reason-The importance of the individual and the common man-"Noble savage"-Nature as sublime-Importance of imagination