American Romanticism

4. What Transcendentalists sought to do from societal norms.
5. A poetic style without regular meter or rhyme.
9. A common theme in Romantic and Gothic literature.
12. The Dark Romantics explored this side of human nature.
15. Traditional stories that inspired many Romantic writers.
17. A novel about Captain Ahab’s obsessive quest.
18. A major source of inspiration and symbolism for the Romantics.
22. A type of development Romantics believed nature could provide.
25. A philosophy that emphasized spiritual reality beyond the material world.
26. A belief of Transcendentalists about the inherent nature of humans.
27. A suppressed part of human nature, according to Dark Romantics.
28. A leader of the Transcendentalist movement.
29. The author famous for "The Raven" and other gothic works.
30. A direction Romantics looked to for wisdom.
31. A theme in Dark Romanticism that could drive characters to madness.

1. The Fireside Poets wanted to prove Americans were not unsophisticated __________.
2. A key word in Walt Whitman’s major poetic work.
3. A Transcendentalist value that emphasized self-reliance.
6. The belief that nature is mystical and a source of inspiration is central to what.
7. A state valued by Transcendentalists for self-discovery.
8. The poet who responded to Whitman’s vision of America.
10. This literary movement was a reaction against the Age of what.
11. A strict moral code that influenced Dark Romanticism.
13. The Romantic era valued this and intuition over reason.
14. The poetic style often used by Fireside Poets.
16. First two words of a Longfellow poem symbolizing the cycle of life.
19. The poet who wrote "I Hear America Singing."
20. The way Fireside Poets' works were commonly shared.
21. A famous Fireside Poet known for his traditional style.
22. A value emphasized by Transcendentalists over materialism.
23. A core Romantic belief that valued creativity and fantasy.
24. A Romantic ideal valued over educated sophistication.
25. A transcendentalist who lived simply in nature.