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American Romanticism Guided Notes
Characteristics of Romantic Literature
The Distant: _________________________________________________________________________________
Nature: _____________________________________________________________________________________
Individualism: ________________________________________________________________________________
Imagination: _________________________________________________________________________________
Sub-Categories of Romanticism
Romantics: __________________________________________________________________________________
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Examples: ____________________________________________________________________________
Dark Romantics: ______________________________________________________________________________
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Examples: ____________________________________________________________________________
Transcendentalists: ___________________________________________________________________________
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Transcend = ___________________________________________________________________________
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Examples: ____________________________________________________________________________
Major Works
Washington Irving: ____________________________________________________________________________
Emily Dickinson: ______________________________________________________________________________
Edgar Allan Poe: ______________________________________________________________________________
Henry David Thoreau: _________________________________________________________________________
Ralph Waldo Emerson: ________________________________________________________________________
Historical Context
1800s
Westward Expansion: _________________________________________________________________________
Division of North and South: ____________________________________________________________________
Immigration: ________________________________________________________________________________
Technology Advances: _________________________________________________________________________