The American Romantic period of literature was simply an attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature in America over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. Like the writers who embodied it, it was a time where the people of America had a deep appreciation of the beauties of nature as well as a novel infatuation with exceptional literary figures; focusing on their passions and inner struggles. Writers …showed first 75 words of 1285 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1285 total…as more important then the strict adherence to formal rules and traditional procedures followed by earlier writers and it showed in their work. (1) http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/folklore.html (2) http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/rvw/rvwtext.html (3) http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg143.htm (4) http://classiclit.about.com/arts/classiclit/library/bletexts/nhawthorne/blnhawgoodman.htm (5) http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/projects/price/bear2000.htm