Research Guides: American Romanticism: Background

The Romantic Period in American Literature

Brief explanation:
- The romantic period of American literature took place from 1830 to 1870 and emphasized nature, symbolism, transcendentalism, and individualism. Among the major authors of this period were Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Walt Whitman.
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