Romanism and Transcendentalism
1800-1850
Characteristics
Romanism portrayed nature as perfection and man as imperfect.
Transcendentalism was the belief that you could learn from nature and it would provide virtue and wisdom. Romantism and Transcendentalism go hand and hand.
Books
Ralph Waldo Emerson's The Transcendentalism
Walt Whitman's Leaves of grass
Henry David Thoreau's Walden
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter
Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
Authors
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804-1864
Walt Whitman
1819-1892