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Romanticism

The Romantic Era followed the Age of Reason. While the Age of Reason involved emphasis on science and rational thinking, Romanticism was the exact opposite. Romantics valued feeling and intuition over reason. They recognized the worth of the individual, and praised beauty, imagination, and innocence. Some of these writers were Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau. Through this paper the writer intends to present the reasons that these three authors are considered Romantic writers.
Margaret Fuller demonstrated her Romantic tendencies even throughout her life. With a genuine disgust for conformity, she went against all the views of her time on what women should be. This was shown in her work Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Here she incorporated several characteristics of Romanticism other than her obvious rebellion against conformity.
“‘Frailty thy name is WOMAN.’ ‘The Earth waits for her Queen.’
THE connection between these quotations......


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