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Review What’s the time of romantic period? The Romantic Period From the end of 18c Went to the top in 1840s, known as New England Transcendentalism End with the outbreak of Civil War(1861~65) What is American Romanticism? Great flowering of American literature Romanticism emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, and the visionary. The Outline of American Literature I Colonial Period (1607—1765) II Revolutionary Period (1765—1800) III The Age of Romanticism (1800—1865) IV The Age of Realism (1865—1918)