Romanticism

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Romanticism

• Ms. Dolan
• 1st period English

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INTRODUCTION

• Romanticism was the movement in literature from
  1750-1870 in Europe, the United States, and Latin
  America
• Characterized by the reliance on the
  imagination,freedom of thought and expression,
  and the idealization of nature individualism.

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Edgar Allan Poe1809-1849

• Perhaps the best known American Romantic Gothic
  writers.
• Stories and poems focused on the darker side of
  romance, dealing with the grotesque,
  supernatural, and horrifying
• Writings defined the form of the American short
  story.
• Wrote The Raven, The Imp of the Perverse, and The
  Masque of the Red Death

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James Fenimore Cooper1789-1851

• Americas first truly successful novelist
• Expelled from Yale for causing pranks then joined
  the Navy.
• Left Navy after his father died, which made him a
  wealthy man.
• First novel, Precaution, was not very good.
• Found his niche in writing frontier romance
  novels.
• Traveled to Europe and returned only to be called
  aristocratic, high-handed, and Anti-American.

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Washington Irving1783-1859

• Sickly child who grew up to be a sharp observer
  of life.
• Americas first internationally renowned author,
  who helped found the magazine,Salmagundi, he
  wrote sketches and poems.
• First major work of literature was a satirical
  history of New York, published under the
  pseudonym, Diedrich Knickerbocker.
• Wrote biographies of Christopher Columbus, George
  Washington, travel books and American-romantic
  folklore.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807-1882

• Grew up in Portland, Maine
• Academic and talented poet, became famous enough
  in his lifetime to dedicate himself to writing
• So successful as a student, a new post was
  created for him, Professor of Modern Languages,
  but retired to writing soon after.
• Wrote The Song Of Hiawatha, The Courtship Of
  Miles Standish,and Evangline.

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Herman Melville1819-1891

• Began by writing about his experiences as a
  sailor
• Wrote about life among the natives of the Pacific
  Islands, was know as the man that lived among
  the cannibals and came back to tell the story.
• Soon lost his audience and began working as a
  deputy inspector of customs in New York.
• By the time he died, the public had forgotten him
  as an important writer or even cared.
• Wrote Moby Dick, Typee, and Omoo.

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Hyperlinks

• http//www.melville.org
• http//www.nadn.navy.mil/englishdept/poeperplex/th
  epoepe.htm
• http//www.auburn.edu

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Works Cited

• English text
• internet
• Encarta Encyclopedia