Abraham Lincoln

The nineteenth century and Abraham lincoln's second

The American Renaissance is a time that American writers received more recognition as to the quality of their works. Before this time scholars looked upon the works of the artist and writers in America were looked upon as secondary to the across the Atlantic. The novelist Gustave de Beaumont "warned Europeans not to ‘look for poetry, literature, or fine arts in this country'." (McQuade et al pg. 462) "When one of the proprietors of the North American Review first read young William Cullen Bryant's blank verse, Wordsworthian "Thanatopsis" (1817), a poem subsequently hailed as the finest yet written in America, he assumed the author was British: ‘No one on this side of the Atlantic is capable of writing such verse'." (462) The American Renaissance is also a time of Transcendentalism. Transcendentalism is a form of relying on one's own intuition and conscious. The American Renaissance is a period framed by two major events, the P...