American Romanticism, Transcendentalism, and Romantic Hero

Romanticism values feeling over reason.

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• False

The typical Romantic hero is worldly, educated, and sophisticated.

• True
• False

The Fireside Poets were so called because they wrote poetry together at the fireside.

• True
• False

Transcendentalists believed that nature is separate from spiritual truth.

• True
• False

Melville, Poe, and Hawthorne disagreed with Transcendentalists about optimism.

• True
• False

Everything in the world, including human beings, is a reflection of the Divine Soul.

• True
• False

The physical facts of the natural world are a doorway to the spiritual or ideal world.

• True
• False

People can use their intuition to behold God's spirit revealed in nature or in their own souls.

• True
• False

Self-reliance and individualism must outweigh external authority and blind conformity to custom and tradition.

• True
• False

Spontaneous feelings and intuition are superior to deliberate intellectualism and rationality.

• True
• False