Early American Romanticism

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Across
  1. 3. Feeling prioritized by Romantic writers
  2. 5. Walker who makes a deal with the devil
  3. 6. Female Usher twin who rises from death
  4. 8. Experiences of awe, terror, and beauty in nature
  5. 11. Descriptive language appealing to the senses
  6. 13. Edgar Allan who mastered Gothic horror
  7. 14. Moral decay shown in Tom Walker's greed
  8. 16. Giving human qualities to non-human things
  9. 17. Washington who wrote "The Devil and Tom Walker"
  10. 18. Male Usher twin in Poe's story
  11. 20. Literary movement emphasizing emotion, imagination, and nature over reason
  12. 21. Type of spiritual song in Longfellow's title
  13. 22. Dark literary style featuring decay, psychological terror, and supernatural elements
  14. 24. William Cullen who wrote "Thanatopsis"
  15. 26. William who wrote about daffodils
  16. 28. State of being alone with one's thoughts
Down
  1. 1. Mental faculty that preserves emotional experiences
  2. 2. Mental faculty valued over logic by Romantics
  3. 4. Central source of truth and spiritual insight for Romantics
  4. 7. Golden flowers in Wordsworth's nature poem
  5. 8. Using objects to represent deeper meanings
  6. 9. Natural process explored in "Thanatopsis"
  7. 10. False religious behavior shown by Tom Walker
  8. 11. Finding truth through feeling rather than logic
  9. 12. Doomed family name in Poe's Gothic tale
  10. 15. Bryant's poem about accepting death naturally
  11. 19. Physical and moral deterioration in Gothic literature
  12. 23. Literary technique using humor to criticize society
  13. 25. Henry Wadsworth who wrote "A Psalm of Life"
  14. 27. Natural force that erases footprints in Longfellow's poem