How is the Colonial Period different from the Romantic Period? What are some characteristics of Transcendentalism? How did the Historical Context affect these Literary Periods?
Colonial Period is different from the Romantic period by the romantic having more feelings for the environment. During this time they made a lot of poetry. They celebrated individualism and emotions. People started to question the old ways of doing things. Mostly the church.
The characteristics of Transcendentalism in romantic period is that they valued intuition over reasoning. They had freedom of imagination.
In the romantic period expansion of newspapers brought more information to the people. Slavery debates came along.
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