It was during the Romantic Period that American Literature finally came into being. Whereas the religious writings of the Colonial Period and the political writings of the Revolutionary Period may be considered literature only in the broadest sense of the term, the literature of the Romantic Period may be defined as verbal art.
During this period, Romanticism was the dominant strain, giving emphasis to individualism, emotionalism, the use of the past, and a new focus on nature.
For the purpose os studying the American Romantic Movement, one may divide it into four distinct moments: Early Romanticism, Transcendentalism, The New England Tradition, and the Ideal of Democracy.
By Marisis Aranha Camargo
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