Naturalist poet Stephen Cane was born in Newark, New Jersey, and was the youngest child in a fourteen person family (poetry foundation).“Stephen Crane was one of America's foremost realist writers, and his works have been credited with marking the beginning of modern American Naturalism” (poetry foundation). His most famous piece for writing was a poem called The Red Badge of Courage. This poem was about the Civil War and the fear and courage that goes on during the war (poetry foundation). Romanticism poet Nathaniel Hawthorne was an english writer who was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts (poetry foundation). Nathaniel went to Bowdoin college where he first started his writing career. He eventually wrote many American classics including …show more content…
Romanticism was originally thought of as an aesthetic in literary criticized in the 1800. It got momentum as an artistic movement in France and Britain early nineteenth century and flourished until mid-century (Kathryn Calley Galitz). Because Romanticism was based on imagination and emotion, it emerged as a response to Enlightenment values of reason and order in the aftermath of the French Revolution of 1789 (Kathryn Calley Galitz). Jacques Louis David’s studio was the studio that shaped many Romantic poets like Baron Antoine Jean Gros, Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, and Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. Romanticism with it being based on nature, emotion and imagination it offered an alternative to the ordered world of Enlightenment thought (Kathryn Calley Galitz). Romanticism’s popular themes in its upbring became terrifying explicitness, emotional intensity, and a conspicuous lack of a hero (Kathryn Calley Galitz). Emotional and behavioral extremes, Romantic artists expanded the subject matter, rejecting the instructiveness of Neo Classical history illustrating in favor of imaginary and exotic subjects (Kathryn Calley Galitz). Literature offered an alternate form of escapism. Poets like Lord Byron, and the drama of Shakespeare transported art to other worlds and eras (Kathryn Calley …show more content…
Transcendentalism is a formal word that describes a simple idea. People have knowledge about themselves and the world around them that "transcends" or goes beyond what they can see, hear, taste, touch or feel (The Independence Hall Association). That is the basic idea of transcendentalism. Tanssendalism is based on imagination and intuition not logic or sense (The Independence Hall Association). A transcendentalist is a person that believes this as a way of understanding life relationships (The Independence Hall Association). “The individuals most closely associated with this new way of thinking were connected loosely through a group known as The Transcendental Club, which met in the Boston home of George Ripley.” (The Independence Hall Association). The leader of the group was Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson who graduated Harvard was though of a the first true “american thinker (The Independence Hall Association). “He believed that people were naturally good and that everyone's potential was limitless.” (The Independence Hall Association). He was truly a revolutionary thinker. He inspired people to look into nature, art, and life most confusing questions (The Independence Hall