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Essay Archive - Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne: Romantic Style of Writing
Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne: Romantic Style of Writing
Two authors best who typify a Romantic style of writing are Edgar
Allen Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Both authors identify their characters
through the use of creative symbolism, colorful metaphors, and the use of
the supernatural in their works. Like many authors of the seventeenth
century Poe and Hawthorne stretched Realism beyond the edge of reality
thereby developing a style of writing which today is commonly refer to as
Romanticism. The use of the short story format in both "The Black Cat" and
"Young G....
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