The american renaissance

The American Renaissance

1. The American Renaissance By Amanda Anderson ENG 491 Julie Miler

2. 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

3. 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 creativity Culture, Religion, & Politics During the American Renaissance

4. Movement focusing on optimism The goodness in people Philosophical The Divine is above all else and is in everything Liberal views on feminism Belief in the community Opposite of Dark Romanticism Transcendentalism

5. Famous Faces of The American Renaissance

6. Emily Dickinson “Hope” is the thing with feathers   (1830–1886)

7. I taste a liquor never brewed Success is counted sweetest Wild Nights-Wild Nights! I felt a Funeral in my Brain I’m Nobody! Who are you? Because I could not stop for Death Some Works by Emily Dickinson

8. Ralph Waldo Emerson The Conduct of Life: Power 1803–1882

9. Some Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature Essays : First Series Essays: 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"

10. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass

11. Leaves of Grass Poetry A Noiseless Patient Spider Adieu to a Soldier As I Ponder'd in Silence Come Up from the Fields Father Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Good-bye my Fancy! Halcyon Days I Dream'd in a Dream Some Works of Walt Whitman I Hear America Singing I Sing the Body Electric Mannahatta Myself and Mine O Captain! My Captain! On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain! Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking Passage to India Pioneers! O Pioneers! Salut au Monde! Song of Myself

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