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)

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Fiction

"The Devil and Tom Walker," Washington Irving

"The Minister's Black Veil," Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Bartleby, the Scrivener," Herman Melville