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The New England Renaissance 1840-1855 (The darker Visions ((((((Common…
The New England Renaissance 1840-1855
The Literary Response
Still under the influence of European Writers
They're great because their work still inspire us
American writers inspired by Emerson
More American Writers
The American Scholar (1837)
American Literature celebrates the American society.
James Fenimore Cooper
Washington Irving
The Transcedentalists
Living as individual, everyone is free from restraining
Men and women who were different
Nature is divine
Spiritual reality is available if we are individuals.
Moral enthusiasm
Knowledge comes from the soul
Optimistic and aspiring
Individualism
Means to overcome limits
The darker Visions
Transcentalism :forbidden:
Not shared by all authors
Nature is not easy to read
Human nature was inflexible
Emerson couldn't read Hawthorne with pleasure
Life is mysterious
Common elements
Sincerity of research
Power of writing
Hawthorne admired Emerson
Hawthorne
Melville
The American Romance
First Authors
American Novels should only be judged as romances
Latter form of composition aim at a very minute fidelity
The House of the Seven Gables (1851)
Need not tie it self an accurate portrait of real people
With Hawthorne
Novel
Romance
Imagination
Native Grounds
Brayant
Irving
Poe
Cooper
The Fireside Poets
Contributed in American Renaissance
Poetry became famous in America
Created a romanticized image of Americans way of like
Told American Tales
Togheter these poets formed a national mythology
Poems where very popular
Poems were popular
Poems were very understandable
Discuss about ordinary American people
John Greenleaf Whittier
Oliver Wendell Holmes
William Cullen Bryant (sometimes)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American writers began to make distinction between
Important because helped to define difference between American and European narrative
Americans Intelectual declaration of independence
Concentrated in Boston
Walt Whitman
Clasics
Takes too gloomy