AMERICAN LITERATURE
ELIZABETHAN ERA
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Nature as a source of secular and spiritual knowledge, emotion as truth, and exploration of the self.
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Scientific exploration.
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Love and romance.
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The philosophy of how to run a new country.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Writers of the Romantic period were concerned with individual creativity, imagination, and expression. They emphasized the importance of human emotion, valued individual freedom, and promoted individual goals.
Detailed explanation-2: -For the Romantics, Nature was transfigured into a living force and held together as a unity by the breath of the divine spirit. It was infused with a comprehensive symbolism resting on its profound moral and emotional connection with human subjectivity. Coleridge referred to nature as the “language of God.”
Detailed explanation-3: -Essentially, the Romantics thought that Nature (and they did often capitalize it, with a pantheistic reverence akin to Native Americans) was profoundly beneficial for mankind; that being in nature could have powerful physical, moral, educative effects on a person.
Detailed explanation-4: -Romanticism was characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism, clandestine literature, paganism, idealization of nature, suspicion of science and industrialization, as well as glorification of the past with a strong preference for the medieval rather than the classical.