American Romantic Period

The American Romantic period of literature was simply an attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature in America over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. Like the writers who embodied it, it was a time where the people of America had a deep appreciation of the beauties of nature as well as a novel infatuation with exceptional literary figures; focusing on their passions and inner struggles. Writers …

…as more important then the strict adherence to formal rules and traditional procedures followed by earlier writers and it showed in their work. (1) http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/folklore.html (2) http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/rvw/rvwtext.html (3) http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg143.htm (4) http://classiclit.about.com/arts/classiclit/library/bletexts/nhawthorne/blnhawgoodman.htm (5) http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/projects/price/bear2000.htm