American Romanticism

What years are associated with American Romanticism?

• 1600-1680

• 1720-1800

• 1800-1860

• 1920-1980

Romantics value ____________ over reason

• Ambition

• Education

• Intuition

• Society

Romantics were inspired by supernatural tales and myths

• true

• false

Romantics believed that youthful _________ is better than educated sophistication

• beauty

• innocence

• ignorance

• energy

American Romantic writers rejected rationalism (the Enlightenment or Age of Reason) because they believed that-

• logic is dumb

• intuition and imagination yield greater truths

• scientific thinking wasn't fully developed

• popularity as a poet was important.

American Transcendental writers rejected rationalism (the Enlightenment or Age of Reason) because they believed that-

• logic is dumb

• intuition and imagination yield greater truths

• scientific thinking wasn't fully developed

• popularity as a poet was important.

What is Romanticism?

• The essence of reading and writing.

• To believe in something you don't.

• Search the meaning of the known, the human spirit reaches for the unknown.

• Be romantic with the person you love.

What are the two major categories of American Romanticism?

• Gothic Romantic & Religiousness

• Realism & Transcendentalism

• Gothic Romantic & Transcendentalism

• Realism & Regionalism

Who wrote Nature & Self-Reliance?

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Arthur Miller

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

Transcendentalists believed that society and its institutions corrupt the purity of the human soul

• True

• False