Understanding Key Elements of Romanticism in American Literature: Irving and Poe

In this essay on American Romanticism, the student explains the movement's shift away from reason and rationality into the realms of imagination and emotion. The student profiles Washington Irving ("The Devil and Tom Walker") and Edgar Allan Poe ("The Raven") as representative of Romanticism's supernatural and macabre tendencies.
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