GRANT

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GRANT
(And Lilly and Albert)s
AMERICAN ROMANTICISM PROJECT
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.) Title Page 2.) Table of Contents 3.)
Historical Events 4.) Novelists (Fiction) 5.)
Novelists (non-fiction) 6.) Novelists
(Poetry) 7.) Novelists (Drama) 8.) Works of the
afore-mentioned authors 9.) Literary Styles 10.)
Philosophies 11.) Subject Matter
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Historical Events
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FICTION novelists
Primary Works
"Ms Found in a Bottle," 1835 Politan - The
Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket,
1838 (novel) Tales of the Grotesque and
Arabesque. 2 vols., 1840 (stories) The Prose
Romances, 1843 (stories) Tales,
1845(stories). Collected works of Edgar Allan
Poe. 3 vols. Ed. Thomas Ollive Mabbott.
Cambridge Harvard UP, 1969. PS2600 .F69
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
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FICTION novelists
Edgar Allan Poe is perhaps the best-known
American Romantic who worked in the Gothic
mode. His poems and stories explore the darker
side of the Romantic imagination, dealing with
the grotesque, the supernatural, and the
horrifying. He was also an important critic his
and Hawthorne's writings, for example, defined
the form of the American short story, and Poe
single-handedly invented the detective story.
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FICTION novelists
Primary Works
Typee, 1846 Omoo, 1847 Mardi, 1849 Redburn,
1849 White-Jacket, 1850 Moby-Dick, 1851
Aspects of the War, 1866 John
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
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POETS
Primary Works
Franklin, R. W. ed. The Manuscript Books of
Emily Dickinson. 2 vols. Cambridge Harvard UP,
1981.   Johnson, Thomas H. ed. The Poems of
Emily Dickinson, including Variant Readings
Critically Compared with All Known
Manuscripts. 3 vols. Cambridge Harvard UP,
1955.
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
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POETS
Morris, Saundra. "The Threshold Poem, Emerson,
and 'The Sphinx'." American literature
69.3 (Sep 1997) 547-571.   Thomas, Joseph M.
"'The Property of My Own Book' Emerson's Poems
(1847) and the LiteraryMarketplace." New
england quarterly 69.3 (Sep 1996) 406-426.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882
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POETS
Ralph Waldo Emerson was one of the founders
of Transcendentalism, an important
philosophical and literary movement in the
America of the early nineteenth century.
Although he was a poet whose works are still
often included in collections of favorite
American poetry, Emerson was most prominent as
an essayist. He was a member of the
Transcendental Club and one of the leading
intellectual lights of the movement, synthesizing
ideas from German Romanticism, Greek philosophy,
and Hindu mysticism. His works, especially
Nature, Self-Reliance, The American Scholar, and
The Divinity School Address amount to a
declaration of independence for American letters.
Below are some links to Web sites dealing with
Emerson's work, his influence, and American
Transcendentalism.