The Romantic Period

Question 1

When did it take place?

Answer 1

1800-1855

Question 2

What was it?

Answer 2

A literary movement, the reaction to the age of reason, and it represented the boundlessness of the imagination and adventure

Question 3

Name all 7 of the characteristics

Answer 3

An impulse toward reform
A celebration of the individual/individualism
A reverence for nature; nature
A concern with the impact of new technology
An idealization of women
A fascination with death and the supernatural
The common man is heroic

Question 4

Name 6 famous Romanticists

Answer 4

Washington Irving
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walt Whitman
Nathanial Hawthorne
Emily Dickinson
James Fenimore Cooper
Margaret Fuller
William Cullen Bryant
Edgar Allan Poe
Henry David Thoreau

Question 5

What are the types of Romantic Literature?

Answer 5

Gothic literature
Essays: Transcendentalism

Question 6

Who was the “Father of American Literature”?

Answer 6

Washington Irving