Romanticism, is a movement in the literature of virtually every country of Europe, United States and Latin America . It lasted from about 1750 to ... tradition is absorbed in the literary movement of transcendentalism that is expressed by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. This movement were influenced by Romanticism, specially in the aspects of self-examination, the celebration of individualism, and the extolling of the beauties of nature and humankind. All the ... Emily Dickinson the ones who opened the doors to the modern poetry. He as many other writers of this epoch made a diff...

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... Henry James, and Robert Frost. Emerson's essays are a series of loosely related impressions, maxims, proverbs, and parables. He has been described as belonging to the tradition of "wisdom literature" that includes Confucius, Marcus Aurelius, Michel de Montaigne, and Francis Bacon, among others. Despite personal hardships, Emerson developed a moral philosophy based on optimism and individualism. In "Self-Reliance ... career as a writer and lecturer. The sources of Emerson's thought have been found in many intellectual movements "Platonism, Neoplatonism, Puritanism, Renaissance poetry, my...

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