According to some information in English books, the critics said the name Romantic can be misleading because the Romantics do not necessarily write about the love. The Romanticism can be viewed as an artistic movement, or state of mind, or both. This movement seemed to be reaction against the dominant attitudes and approaches of the eighteenth century. Unlike the eighteenth century, writers who interest in reaction, logic, and scientific observation, the Romantics stressed the examination of inner feelings, emotions and the use of imagination. This seemed to be the first element in Romanticism. It appeals to emotion rather than reason. Also, the Romanticism explores the mysteries of nature and supernatural. It r

The two above examples help give a better initial understanding about the Romanticism. Also, with the composition of those writers who helped to American literary heritage, this change can explain the differences between the writers of the eighteenth century and the writers of the nineteenth century. Romantic stories and poems help people realize their feelings and face the problems of daily life. Stories dealing with morality help teach lessons to people so they can achieve better lives.

First, the representative Romantic who become the first writer American literature to achieve international reputation, as Washington Irving. He was born into a wealthy New York family. He spent much time traveling in the European Countries and reading their literature. He wrote the folk tale as The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and The Devil and Tom Walker. In “The Devil and Tom Walker” Irving created this famous folktale by reshaping a German folktale that implicates the stereotype of a person who selling his soul to the devil. Irving makes the tale distinctly American by setting it in New England during late 1720’s- a time that Puritanism, especially the belief that a person life should be devoted to God, was being replaced by Commercialism and the desire for personal gain. The Devil tells him about a great treasure of Kidd the Pirate. Tom tells this to his wife, and she tries to get the treasure but she dies because o

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