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1 Celebrations of the Self
Romanticism and Transcendentalism pp

2 Romanticism Beginning of 19th century
Reaction to realism/rationalism (Common) Nature Supernatural (Poe) Close link to Literature “The way things ought to be”

3 Transcendentalism Comes from Germany
Truth exists beyond reason (transcends) Emerson—intuition Thoreau—Walden—literal embodiment of the movement, along with “Civil Disobedience”

4 Other important authors
Walt Whitman H.W. Longfellow Washington Irving

5 Major impact on today Civil Rights Movement Modernism Style

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