The romantic period (1719 – 1830) (apr 24, 1719 – apr 24, 1830)

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- Many writers in the romantic period emphasized feeling and imagination and looked toward nature for insight into the olivine.
- Poetry ( Percey B Shelley, Keats, Lord Byron..)
- The romantic period also featured significant innovations in the novel form
Mary Shelley
- Writed about monsters
- Imagination
- Frankenstein

Edgar Allan Poe

- Horror, terror
- Detective
- Mystery
- Poetry
- He lost his mother when he was 2 years old, lived and went to school in Virginia
- Master of suspense
- Inventor of detective fiction
- Started as literary critics  good reputation
- First American, self-employed author
- Most famous work: the tales of the grotesque and arabesque
- He married a 13-year-old cousin.

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