AMERICAN RENAISSANCE

By: Stephanie Livingston

RELIGION

Transcendalist
an intellectual movement that believed that the human senses could know only physical
reality (week 4 Lecture)
Human spirit is part of this religion.
Important Aspects
self-reliance

Anti Transcendalist
the direct opposite of Transcendentalist (week 4 Lecture)
also known as Dark Romance
Literal technique when it comes to writing
Example: good and evil

POETRY

Poetry was a way to get feelings through by using

symbolisms.
Example:
Edgar Allan Poes Raven
The raven = Mental derangment

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Major Works:
Poems: Concord Hymn, The Rhodora, Brahma,
Uriel, The
Snow Storm, A Nations Strength
Essays: Nature, Self Reliance, Compensation,
The Over
Soul, Circles, The Poet, Experience,
Politics, The
American Scholar, New England
Reformers
American Renaissance:
Gave full expression to a philosophy of romantic
idealism.
Fascinated with power.

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Major Works:
Novels: Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven
Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun (aka The Romance of
Monte Beni), The Loffiver Romance, Septimus Felton (aka Elixir of Life),
Doctor Grimshawes Secret
Short Stories: Twice-Told Tales, Grandfathers Chair, Mosses from an
Old Manse, A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys
American Renaissance
pessimistic about human nature
writing has complex and disturbing aspect of American life
describe the complexities and ambiguities of human psychology
(The American Renaissance)
Shows materialistic society in American
Bought human emotions and imagination as #1

EMILY DICKINSON

Major Works:
Poems: Magnum Bonum, Harem Scarum, A
Valentine, To Mrs,
with a Rose, The May-Wine, The
Sleeping, Sunset,
Flowers, October, My
Sabbath, The Snake, Success Is Counted Sweetest
American Renaissance:
Themes everyone can relate to
death, love, nature
Just being a woman helped with establishing women as
poets/writers

REFERENCES

Information:
prezi.com/m/gdxq9jxp2maj/copy-of-the-american-reaissance-1830-1865
Publications in Dickinsons Lifetime
www.emilydickinsonmmuseum.org/node/241
Ralph Waldo Emerson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Hawthorne
The American Renaissance by: Matt
www.skyminds.net/the-american-renaissance/
Pictures:
www.wildgratitude.com
www.inspirationboost.com
www.azquotes.com
www.poetseers.org