... a drastic and permanent change in music. Many aspiring authors, such as Poe, Whitman, Emerson, and Dickinson, found notoriety with their writings. The early 1800s also saw the rise of Romanticism, a movement that originated in Europe, and shortly after, transcendentalism. These two movements did have some characteristics in common. Both emphasized the importance of nature and distrusted societal pressures and norms ... These two movements helped to define American life after the Revolutionary War in different ways, saw the rise of new ideas and literature, and gave Americans a sense of ...

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