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American Romanticism
Flashcards for reviewing American Romanticism
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Literature
11th Grade
04/13/2011

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Transcendentalism
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The basis for the New Age movement 
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Author with moral objections to Transcendentalism
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Leader of the Transcendentalist movement
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Walt Whitman
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Important Transcendental poet
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Herman Melville
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Had philosophical objections to Transcendentalism
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Henry David Thoreau
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Author who wrote Walden and "Civil Disobedience"
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Individualism, imagination, nature, and the distant
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Four major characteristics of Romanticism
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Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven"
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"The Birthmark"
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Hawthorne's short story about the impossibility of perfection on earth
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