Brennan's+Romanticism+Page

=Welcome to Brennan's Romanticism Page!= DIRECTIONS: 1. Fill the page with information, pictures, quotes about Romanticism.

2. Here is suggested list of topics to google:RIGHT CLICK ON THE GOOGLE ICON AND CHOOSE OPEN A NEW PAGE** American Romanticism, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Transcendentalism, Walden, Washington Irving

3. Your page must have three of the following:

3 relevant pictures

3 quotes from stories we read in class (you can look in the book, or type titles on good and the stories often come up...then you can cut and paste a favorite sentence)

3 facts about any of the Romanticism authors

3 facts about Romanticism (from your notes, the book, or a website)

4. To get started, click EDIT THIS PAGE on the top of this page. The page will then be a document for you to type. Google is in the navigation bar, so that you can quickly access google. Remember to RIGHT CLICK on google link and "open a new page" Also, remember to SAVE (top right) every time you change something. Go below this line and start us off!

AMERICAN ROMANTICISM!



1. "The crushed and dried petals stirred,...as if the flower were reviving from a death-like slumber." 2. "The doctors four guests snatched their glasses from the table, and swallowed the contents at a single gulp" 3. "Age, with its miserable train of cares, and sorrows, and diseases, was remenbered only as the trouble of a dream, from which they had joyously awoke"

1. Edgar Allan Poe was born January 19, 1809 in Boston, where his mother had been employed as an actress. 2. Walt Whitman in 1856 Published the second edition of //Leaves of Grass. 3. Nathaniel Hawthorne// was born in and lived much of his life in Salem, Massachusetts.