Free+of+Restrains

"...freeing of the artist and writer from restrains and rules and suggesting that phase of individualism marked by the encouragement of revolutionary political ideas." This statement is found in the reading of Definitions from A Handbook to Literature, Sixth Edition C. Hough Holman and William Harmon. It gives an overview of what the beginning of the American Romantic Period was about. "The Transcendentalist movement was a reaction against 18th century rationalism and manifestation of the general humanitarian trend of the 19th century thought." This statement is found in the reading The Romantic Period 1820-1860 Essayist ans Poets. It gives an overview of the movement connected to individual differences. "Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolv'd to the earth again" (Bryant line 22-23). This sis from the Poem Thanatopsis, it explains how we are born of the earth and in our death we will return to the earth.