Did not agree with the optimism of the Transcendentalists. Thought that Emerson took only the bright side of Puritanism and ignored the belief in the wickedness.
TRANSCENDENTALISM TRANSCENDENTALISM Can you Pronounce it? Can you spell it?
Edgar Allan Poe
EDGAR ALLAN POE Ms. Giammario & Mrs. Burhenn. TO BEGIN… Was born Edgar Poe to Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and David Poe Jr. on January 19, 1809
Romanticism 1800-1860 “We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak with our own minds…A nation of men will for the first.
Transcendentalism, Anti-Transcendentalism and the Dark Romantics