American Romanticism
1790-1859
Nic Z, Quinn L, Landy C

CHARACTERISTICS

• The importance of feelings
• Imagination
• Self expression
• Individual creativity

TIME PERIOD

• First ten ammendmants
• Bill of rights added to constitution
• Gold rush
• Industrial revolution

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT

• Publisher of thanatopsis in 1817.
• Thanatopsis was about nature and how it can heal people if they feel like they are about to die.