the short story, the religious tract, the epic poem, the adventure novel

the mystery, the allegory, the satire, the narrative poem

the romance, the sentimental novel, philosophical essay, lyrical poem 

portmanteau words

phrasal verbs with the post-fix "out"

compounds with "self" as the first part

creates an American epic of self-awareness

uses sprawling free verse

all the variants indicated

mingles autobiography, sermon and meditation

a pan-European Romantic movement

a British trend of romanticism imported to America

an American trend of Romanticism

wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if he could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when he came to die, discover that he had not lived.

having little or no money in the purse, and nothing in particular to interest him, he thought he would go to the woods to see the forested part of the world to drive off the spleen and regulate the circulation.

wanted to enjoy an original relation to the universe, have a poetry of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation

Fanshawe, The Marble Fawn

Twice-Told Tales, The Blithedale Romance 

The House of the Seven Gables, The Scarlet Letter

English Traits, Walden, Life and Other Stories 

Nature, Self-Reliance, Representative Man

Brahma, Self-Awareness, Civil Disobedience

Individualism, nationalism, introspection

Self-reliance, reverence towards tradition, extraordinary characters 

Spirituality, symbolism, puritanism

R. Emerson, M. Fuller, N. Hawthorne

K. Emerson, G. Lake, C. Palmer 

R.W. Emerson, H.W. Thoreau, B. Alcott

White-Jacket, Typee

Redburn, Bartleby the Scrivener

Billy Bud, Sailor; Moby-Dick, or the Whale