Romanticism

Romanticism


I don¡¦t know what Romanticism is, and though I¡¦ve been offered some definitions before, I think it¡¦s better that I remain unknowing for the time being. The Romanticism I dealt with last semester was American Romanticism, a category which included such disparate authors as Emerson and Melville, Whitman, Thoureau, and even Frederick Douglass. Though I haven¡¦t read the British Romantics prior to this class, I take it to be the case that the name Romanticism ties them together with bonds as flimsy as those between the American writers. Even Wordsworth and Coleridge, we have learned, have different ideas of wha...