Reviewing May-Day and Other Pieces (1867), from which I’ve drawn my examples, William Dean Howells gave one of the better backhanded compliments in American literary history: “Mr. Emerson ...

It was this version of American Romanticism that captivated a subset of gay avant-garde poets in the 1960s. Jonathan Williams ...

This year, the students focused on American Romanticism, a movement that blossomed in the 19th century and defined writers from Walt Whitman to Ralph Waldo Emerson. The period saw thinkers praise ...