ABSTRACT
First published in 1986. This outstanding collection of major essays by some of America’s finest literary scholars and critics provides students of American literature with a unique perspective of America’s Romantic literature. Some of these essays make connections between authors or define Romanticism in terms of one of the works; others address major issues during the period; others offer a framework for specific works; and, finally, some give interpretations for the reader. All of the essays offer distinctive voices that will engage students in this rich and memorable period of American literature.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |24 pages
Introduction
part |57 pages
Emerson
chapter |16 pages
I, Eye, Ay—Emerson's Early Essay on "Nature"
part |60 pages
Thoreau
part |58 pages
Poe
part |51 pages
Hawthorne
part |46 pages
Melville
part |46 pages
Whitman