This literature unit on the Romantic era is the third in a series of the American Literary movements which includes: The Puritan Era, The Age of Reason, The Romantic Era, Transcendentalism, Realism, Harlem Renaissance, Modernism and Post Modernism. Following the the Age of Reason, which instituted a rationalism that sometimes went beyond its own boundaries, the Romantic writers rebirthed the ideals of: intuition, imagination, individuality and nature as a source of inspiration. Invoking the pas