DarkRomantics

"//Fallen man's inability fully to comprehend haunting reminders of another, supernatural realm that yet seemed not to exist, the constant perplexity of inexplicable and vastly metaphysical phenomena, a propensity for seemingly perverse or evil moral choices that had no firm or fixed measure or rule, and a sense of nameless guilt combined with a suspicion that the external world was a delusive projection of the mind--these were major elements in the vision of man that the Dark Romantics opposed to the mainstream of Romantic thought."// G.R. Thompson from [|**en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Dark_romanticism**]


 * Dark Romanticism** is a literary subgenre that emerged during the transcendentalist era of the nineteenth-century. It involved works of literature that that were influenced by Trancendtalist thought but didnt completly embrace all the values. With works of mankind, nature, and divinity notably less optismistic.

The term //dark romanticism// stems from its influence from the earlier romantic literary movement and from the pessimistic nature of the subgenre. The birth of Dark Romanticism however is due to the mid nineteenth-century reaction to the American Transcendentalism movement.

Important Works and Authors "The Raven" Edgar Allen Poe "Dream-Land" Edgar Allen Poe http://who2.com/edgarallanpoe.html "The Birth-Mark" Nathaniel Hawthorne http://www.who2.com/nathanielhawthorne.html "Bartleby the Scrivener" Herman Melville http://www.who2.com/hermanmelville.html

Common themes of dark romantisc woks invovled humans that were prone to sin and self destruction, not inherently possessing divinty or wisdom.

The subgenre of Dark Romanticism has certainly died out over the years, while we still read the works done by the masters of the subgenre, humans today lack the bleak lifestyle needed to understand the sorrow it takes to write such works.