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Not your average love stories The Dark Romantics Not your average love stories

A Dark romantic View I know not how it was—but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. From “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe

The American Romantic Period Lasted from 1800 to 1860 1840 to 1860 called the American Renaissance because it witnessed a surge in American literary masterpieces. They could be split into two groups: Dark Romantics and Transcendentalists.

Similarities Transcendentalists Dark Romantics True reality is spiritual. Intuition is superior to logic or reason. Human events contain signs and symbols of spiritual truths.

Differences Transcendentalists Dark Romantics Saw divine goodness and beauty beneath everyday reality Believed spiritual truths may be ugly or frightening Embraced the mystical and idealistic elements of Puritan thought Reintroduced the dark side of Puritan beliefs: the idea of Original Sin and the human potential for evil

Dark romantic writers

Dark romantic Elements Creepy Symbols Horrific themes Psychological effects of guilt and sin

What have you learned? 1. The Transcendentalists had a dark vision of the world. a. true b. false 2. Hawthorne was a Transcendentalist. a. true b. false 3. The Dark Romantics believed in spiritual but not necessarily optimistic truths behind nature.