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The Romantic Time Period (1800-1860)
Major Historical Events *The Louisianna Purchase *The Gold Rush *Education and Reform
Alternate names: Dark Romanticism Transcendentalism
*values feeling and emotion over intuition *places faith in inner experience and the power of imagination *seeks unspoiled nature *prefers youthful innocence *looks to the wisdom of the past *finds beauty in exotic places, the supernatural realm, and the inner world of imagination
Key Authors of the time period: *Washington Irving *Nathaniel Hawthorne *Edgar Allan Poe *Herman Melville *William Cullen Bryant *Oliver Wendell Holmes *
