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Transcendentalism vs. Dark Romanticism

Transcendentalists Beliefs:

Dark Romanticism

  • Intuition
  • Intense Feeling and Emotion
  • The Oversoul
  • The Intense Connection between God and Man
  • Their philosophy was the understanding that they believed in finding God through nature
  • They agreed that man was born inherently good and we are God’s most perfection creation.
  • They also believed that evil was empty and could only be filled by good, and that if someone wasn't “good” it was because they were not connected to the oversoul

A literary subgenre of Romanticism characterized by a Dark Gothic style, and a celebration of euphoria and sublimity had been dogged by an equally intense fascination with melancholia, insanity, crime, the grotesque, and the irrational.

The 2 Branches

Transcendentalism

Dark Romantic's Beliefs

During the Romantic Period, 2 distinct branches of literature formed: Transcendentalism and Dark Romanticism.

An idealistic philosophical and social movement that developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism. Influenced by romanticism, Platonism, and Kantian philosophy, it taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity, and its members held progressive views on feminism and communal living. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were central figures.

  • They believed man was born with the stain of original sin and that man is the most destructive force in nature.
  • They believed God was found through good works and life experiences.
  • They also did not believe in the Oversoul, only in Heaven and Hell

Key Figures of Transcendentalism

Key Works of Transcendentalism

Key Works of Dark Romanticism

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Walt Whitman
  • Henry David Thoreau
  • Fall of the House of Usher
  • Moby Dick
  • The Devil and Tom Walker
  • Leaves of Grass
  • Song of Myself
  • Self Reliance
  • Walden
  • Nature

Key Figures of

Dark Romanticism

  • Herman Melville
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
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