(And Lilly and Albert)’s

AMERICAN ROMANTICISM PROJECT

1.) Title Page2.) Table of Contents3.) Historical Events4.) Novelists (Fiction)5.) Novelists (non-fiction)6.) Novelists (Poetry)7.) Novelists (Drama)8.) Works of the afore-mentioned authors9.) Literary Styles10.) Philosophies11.) Subject Matter

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

"Ms Found in a Bottle," 1835;

Politan - The Narrative of Arthur Gordon

Pym of Nantucket, 1838 (novel);

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque.

2 vols., 1840 (stories);

The Prose Romances, 1843 (stories);

Tales, 1845(stories).

Collected works of Edgar Allan Poe. 3 vols.

Ed. Thomas Ollive Mabbott.

Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1969. PS2600 .F69

Primary Works

Edgar Allan Poe is perhaps the best-known American Romantic who worked in the Gothic mode. His poems and stories explore the darker side of the Romantic imagination, dealing with the grotesque, the supernatural, and the horrifying. He was also an important critic; his and Hawthorne's writings, for example, defined the form of the American short story, and Poe single-handedly invented the detective story.

Herman Melville (1819-1891)

Typee, 1846;

Omoo, 1847;

Mardi, 1849; Redburn, 1849; White-Jacket, 1850;

Moby-Dick, 1851;

Aspects of the War, 1866; John

Primary Works

Emily Dickinson(1830-1886)

Franklin, R. W. ed. The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson. 2 vols. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1981.

 Johnson, Thomas H. ed.

The Poems of Emily Dickinson, including Variant Readings Critically Compared with All Known Manuscripts. 3 vols. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1955.

Primary Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson1803-1882

Morris, Saundra. "The Threshold Poem, Emerson, and 'The Sphinx'." American literature 69.3(Sep 1997): 547-571.

 Thomas, Joseph M. "'The Property of My

Own Book': Emerson's Poems (1847) and the LiteraryMarketplace." New england quarterly 69.3 (Sep 1996): 406-426.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was one of the founders of Transcendentalism, an important philosophical and literary movement in the America of the early nineteenth century. Although he was a poet whose works are still often included in collections of favorite American poetry,

Emerson was most prominent as an essayist. He was a member of the Transcendental Club and one of the leading intellectual lights of the movement, synthesizing ideas from German Romanticism, Greek philosophy, and Hindu mysticism. His works, especially Nature, Self-Reliance, The American Scholar, and The Divinity School Address amount to a declaration of independence for American letters. Below are some links to Web sites dealing with Emerson's work, his influence, and American Transcendentalism.