The Dark Romantics

[Drjackl]

I have been studying on the aspects of Christianity through the eyes of different movements in Americans past, mainly the literary movements, puritism, romantics, transcendentalists and so forth. However, I am unable to find but a small amount of information about the anti-transcendentalists/dark romantics, such as Poe and Hawthorn. I was wondering if there is anyone who might know about these things or that may be able to direct me to a source that does know about these things.

[fiveyearwinter]

With Poe, you might want to focus on his belief in death as beautiful, on his obsession with the macabre and the grotesque, and his general depression and fear. I have no doubt his outlook on Christianity was bleak, as the rest of his world was.