Romantic Period (1828-1861)
Romantic Poetry & The Fireside Poets
"Thanatopsis," William Cullen Bryant - Painting "The Chambered Nautilus," Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Auspex," James Russell Lowell Aeolian Harp or Lyre - A Romantic Emblem |
Nonfiction & Transcendentalism
Walden & "Civil Disobedience," Henry David Thoreau "Self-Reliance," Ralph Waldo Emerson "Nature," Ralph Waldo Emerson "The American Scholar," Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Divinity School Address," Ralph Waldo Emerson "Brahma," Ralph Waldo Emerson (A Poem) |
Fiction
"The Devil and Tom Walker," Washington Irving "The Minister's Black Veil," Nathaniel Hawthorne "Bartleby, the Scrivener," Herman Melville |