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    Puritanism

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    Puritanism Puritans were groups of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church of England under Elizabeth as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship. The Puritans roots came from the English Reformation. Some of the puritans liked a Presbyterian form of church‚ others‚ wanted to stay within the structure of the national church but set themselves against the doctrinal and liturgical vestiges of Catholic tradition

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    During the Industrial revolution‚ sometime in the 1840s through the 1850s‚ Romanticism took the backseat to a whole new movement in art called the Realist Movement. As we all know‚ the Romanticism movement was a movement of art that was vastly connected and designed to appeal to the emotions of the viewer. In the paintings of Romanticism nature was drawn with light airy colors to make the scene seem happier and the people were drawn with overly exaggerated faces to help allure emotions‚ all as a

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    anRomanticism in American Literature brought us some of the world’s greatest writers ever to live. Writers such as Edgar Allan Poe‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Herman Melville‚ Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ and Henry David Thoreau all wrote during the Romanticism period. Without them we would not have stories such Moby Dick‚ Resistance to Civil Government‚ The American Scholar‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ and Edgar Allan Poe’s most notorious works such as The Raven and Annabel lee. The Romanticism movement started in Europe

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    In George L. Mosse’s “From Romanticism to the Volk‚” he states‚ “Like‚ romanticism‚ Volkish ideas showed a distinct tendency toward the irrational and emotional . . . Rationalism had been discredited” (Mosse 13). In this quote‚ the word “irrational” represents the concept of the romanticism and “rationalism” represents the concept of the enlightenment‚ and this quote basically means that the enlightenment ideas lost people’s faith. As one can realize in Mosse’s quote‚ there is a distinct conflict

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    Romanticism‚ commonly known as American romanticism‚ is writing in which feelings and intuition are valued over reason. It had a great influence over literature‚ music‚ and painting in the early eighteenth and well through the nineteenth centuries. It was commonly thought of as a trip into our imagination and could be written as stories‚ music‚ and paintings‚ but it was mainly found in poetry. In this essay‚ I will discuss the romantic qualities of “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving

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    From Enlightenment to Romanticism; A comparison between the two periods. The literary periods are like each other’s opposites. While in the enlightenment focus was on what was real and social justice‚ romanticism was more about feelings and often unrequited love. The 1700-s enlightenment writers spoke first and foremost about reason and wanted more than anything to teach and lecture their readers‚ they turned against the social injustice they saw and fought for tolerance and acceptance. While

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    What is Puritanism? Who are the Puritans? The Origin and Development of Puritanism Puritanism: Puritanism was a loosely organized reform movement originating during the English Reformation of the sixteenth century. The name came from efforts to "purify" the Church of England by those who felt that the Reformation had not yet been completed. Eventually the Puritans went on to attempt purification of the self and society as well. This movement arose within the Church of England in the late sixteenth

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    American Romanticism: 1800–1860 (--information adapted from Elements of Literature) A Timeline of Selected Events during the Period Known As American Romanticism 1798 - William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge publish Lyrical Ballads‚ a landmark of English Romanticism (traditionally considered the beginning of the English Romantic Movement) 1817 - William Cullen Bryant publishes Thanatopsis 1828 - Noah Webster publishes a landmark dictionary of American English 1833 - John Greenleaf

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    Romanticism in literature‚ began around 1750 and lasted until 1870. Different from the classical ways of Neoclassical Age(1660-1798)‚ it relied on imagination‚ idealization of nature and freedom of thought and expression. Two men who influenced the era with their writings were William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ both English poets of the time. Their edition of “Lyrical Ballads”‚ stressed the importance of feeling and imagination. Thus in romantic Literature

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    Mike Falgui English Literature: Romanticism and Victorian I. Themes of English Romanticism in Literature "Romanticism" is a period‚ movement‚ or style in arts starting in the late 1700s and flourishing in the early 1800s‚ a time when the modern mass culture in which we now live was first taking form: the rise of nation-states as defining social and geographic entities‚ increasing geographic and social mobility‚ people moving to cities‚ new technology including power from fossil fuels‚ individualism

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