ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
True/False:American Romantics thought that poetry was the highest form of art?
A
True
B
False
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The romantic period of American literature took place from 1830 to 1870 and emphasized nature, symbolism, transcendentalism, and individualism. Key authors of this period include Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Walt Whitman.

Detailed explanation-2: -The major American Romantics included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, and Herman Melville.

Detailed explanation-3: -In reference to romanticism in the given options freedom for the individual is true.

Detailed explanation-4: -Romantics believed that people were inherently good and discovery came through intuition and feeling. A defining trait of the Romantic era, and the major critique of the Enlightenment, was that creativity was more highly valued over logic. Romanticism was also inspired by an awe and respect of nature.

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