Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Finding Paragraph #2
     Many literary works were publish during the American Romanticism Movement. Moby Dick, written by Herman Melville is about the famous tale of Caotain Ahab and his serach for a white whale. The Scarlett Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne tells the take of Hester and her daughter, Pearl. Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, by Edgar Allan Poe is about a newspaper account of a shipwreck.  Poe is also well known for his short stories, like "A Tell-Tale Heart," and poems like "The Raven." The Last of the Mohicans written by James Fenimore Copper tells you of Hawkeye and the Mohicans against the backdrop of the French and Indian War. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, was an antislavaery novel. The novel was published as an outcry against slavery and it instantly became a best seller (Books & Literature Classics). Some of the peoms published during this time period included "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth; "Infant Joy" and "The Tiger" by William Blake; "A Thing of Beauty" by John Keats;  "To the Dandelion," and  "A Fable for Critics" by James Russell Lowell and many more (Poet Seers - Poem of the Day — Poet Seers). The Scarlett Letter and Moby Dick are placed as the greatest novels in the English language.There were many more works of literature published during this time.
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