American Romanticism and Transcendentalism

What century did the Romantic Era take place?

• 16th century

• 17th century

• 18th century

• 19th century

Which of the following are characteristics of Romanticism?

• Emotion over reason

• Beauty and natural aesthetic

• Wildness, wilderness, and the unknown

• All of the above

Romanticism shuns the artificiality of the civilization and seeks unspoiled nature 

• True

• False

Romanticism condemns individual freedom and the worth of the individual

• True

• False

Romanticism finds beauty and truth in exotic locales, the supernatural realm, and the inner world of imagination.

• True

• False

_____ was considered necessary for creating all art.

• Intuition

• Idealism

• Imagination

• Individualsim

The journey of American Romantic literature can BEST be described as..

• Rejecting traditional poetry and inventing new forms.

• Leaving civilization and entering the world of nature.

• Escaping duty to do as one pleases.

• Abandoning all intellectual pursuits for a frontier life.

Transcendentalists believed that you could learn about "bigger truths" through reason and logic.

• True

• False

Transcendentalists placed great value on what is best for the majority.

• True

• False

Transcendentalists believed in the mystery of beauty and nature.

• True

• False