The American Renaissance

The American RenaissanceBy Amanda AndersonENG 491Julie Miler

The American Renaissance is a literary period that begins around 1830 and ends shortly after the Civil War in 1865. It is a period of full of cultural, religious, literary, political, and geographic changes in America. The American Renaissance ushered in a darker, more pessimistic style of writing and brought about Dark Romanticism and Transcendentalism. Introduction

Development of American culture which influenced literature

Writers began exploring topics other than religion and politics

Freedom from British rule and an established American government ushered in greater literary creativityCulture, Religion, & Politics During the American Renaissance

Movement focusing on optimismThe goodness in peoplePhilosophical The Divine is above all else and is in everythingLiberal views on feminismBelief in the community Opposite of Dark Romanticism

Transcendentalism

Famous Faces of The American Renaissance

Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers

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I taste a liquor never brewedSuccess is counted sweetestWild Nights-Wild Nights!I felt a Funeral in my BrainIm Nobody! Who are you?Because I could not stop for DeathSome Works by Emily Dickinson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Conduct of Life: Power18031882

Some Works of Ralph Waldo EmersonNature Essays: First SeriesEssays: Second Series Poems Representative Men The Conduct of Life English Traits Society and Solitude Parnassus Letters and Social Aims"The Concord Hymn""The Problem" "Threnody" "Poet""The Humble-Bee" "The Rhodora""Uriel" "Give All to Love" "Brahma" "Merlin" "Boston Hymn"

Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass

Leaves of GrassPoetryA Noiseless Patient SpiderAdieu to a SoldierAs I Ponder'd in SilenceCome Up from the Fields FatherCrossing Brooklyn FerryGood-bye my Fancy!Halcyon DaysI Dream'd in a DreamSome Works of Walt WhitmanI Hear America SingingI Sing the Body ElectricMannahattaMyself and MineO Captain! My Captain!On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!Out of the Cradle Endlessly RockingPassage to IndiaPioneers! O Pioneers!Salut au Monde!Song of Myself

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