LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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Civilization is the most important thing man can accomplish.
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Reason is more important than feelings.
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Individual freedom is a necessary thing.
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There is no such thing as the supernatural.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What are the 5 characteristics of American romanticism? Romanticism is marked by a focus on individualism, an emphasis on nature, emotion over reason, freedom of form, and an exploration of the Gothic and unknown.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Individualism Romanticism is the cult of the individual – the cultural and psychological nativity of the self, the inner spark of divinity that links one human being to another and all humans to the Larger Truth.
Detailed explanation-4: -Prominent Romantic writers include Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Herman Melville.