Romanticism Webquest Writers, artists, and thinkers of the Romantic Age believed that the imagination was the most important part of the mind. The imagination was the creating power that should be used to create the world around them, rather than perceiving the world how it already was. During the Romantic Age, writers, artists, and thinkers believed that nature was a work of art created in a symbolic language. Nature was believed to be living, rather than scientific and had many powers including, healing powers, an escape from the unreal constructs of civilization, and a source of subject and image. They also believed that symbols were valued to represent the correlation between human life and nature’s language. Also, writers, artists, and …show more content…
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote local and religious periodicals, poems, travel books, biographical sketches, children’s books, and adult novels. Out of her ten novels, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s most famous work is Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Her controversial novel focused on the public issue of slavery. After the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, she became a celebrity by speaking against slavery around America and Europe. Edgar Allan Poe was known for his dark and emotional writing, which connected him to the emotional element of Romanticism. Poe’s writing also connected the traits of Romanticism including imaginary, unrealistic, and unordinary things because of the mysterious and vague details in his writing. His most famous contributions were dark short stories and poems, such as The Raven, The Tell-tale Heart, and The Fall of the House of Usher. These writings were about murder, revenge, torture, the plague, insanity, and being buried alive. Walt Whitman wrote in simple language, so that the common people could easily access his poetry. His style of writing is credited with developing a type of poetry that was clearly American and democratic. His most famous works of art include Leaves of Grass and Democratic Vistas. These works are full of nature and reflect freedom, democracy, individualism, and imagination, which are all key elements in