The American Romantic period of literature was simply an attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature in America over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. Like the writers who embodied it, it was a time where the people of America had a deep apprec...

Considered perhaps the greatest American playwright, Tennessee Williams was raised in Mississippi and achieved success early on in his career when he won the New York Critics' Circle Award in 1944-45 for the Broadway debut of The Glass Menagerie. Williams went on to win the same award and ...

AMERICAN GOTHIC: Tracing the Dark Romantic Through Irving, Hawthorne and Poe by Justin Cooper If we follow the stream of American romanticism through its shining era of the decades preceding the Civil War, we see a robust river of humanist thought: Emerson, Thoreau, Whittie...