Nick+C's+Romanticism+page

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

2. Here is a 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!

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Life is a festival only to the wise

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behaviour, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Thought is the seed of action

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side...when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time...is a very good one...

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first.

They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear. - Ralp Waldo Emerson - http://www.thinkexist.com/English/Author/x/Author_3924_1.htm

Edgar Allan Poe married his cousin. Emerson born May 25, 1803 died April 27, 1882. Whitman born in west hills new york

term loosely applied to literary and artistic movements of the late 18th and 19th cent. - http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/romantic romanticism was a reaction to neoclassicism. romanticism is an artistic and creative literary movement