Ralph Waldo Emerson was a man of many talents. He wrote essays and poetry, and he was associated not only with American Romanticism but also with its sister movement, Transcendentalism. Way to get...

Henry David Thoreau lived a pretty extraordinary life. At one point he spent two years living almost in complete solitude in a cabin in the woods in Massachusetts that he'd built himself. Take that...

Walt Whitman is the most important poet of the American Romantic movement. He's credited with developing a style of poetry that was distinctly American and democratic in its outlook. He wrote in si...

Thanks to Herman Melville, we have the great (and we mean huge—this novel is important and fat) American epic Moby-Dick. Melville is a huge part of the American Romantic movement because his work...

Nathaniel Hawthorne is another American Romantic writer who is known for his fiction. Along with Melville, he helped make the novel genre a big part of the American Romantic tradition. Hawthorne, w...