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 * 3 facts about any of the Romanticism authors**

__**//*Romanticism//-**__ A broad movement (and style of writing) in the arts originating in the 18th-19th centuries that focused on the experience of the individual. Like other Labels Romanticism is just a vague word for an entire cultural movement. A time of enlightenment where instead of reading a book about life,one goes experiences and questions it for themselves.

__**Edgar Allen Poe**__-One of the first people who dared to write about his twisted yet raw and true inner life.This is now known as the dark side of Romantisicm.

"And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand-- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep While I weep--while I weep! O God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save _One_ from the pitiless wave? Is _all_ that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?" -E.A. Poe



__**Henry David Thoreau**__-Introduced in his essay //Civil Disobedience-//the idea of disobeying an unjust law in a nonviolent way.

"i guess the grass itself a child" -H.D. Thoreau



__**Walt Whitman**__-Often called "Father of free verse", wrote a collection of poetry,//Leaves Of Grass//, that he revised his whole life until a week before his death.

"I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you." -W. Whitman