1. Choose an author from the romantic time period 2. Choose a few works(poems,

1. Choose an author from the romantic time period
2. Choose a few works(poems, essays, short stories) from the author
3. Provide analysis for those works, interpreting the meaning- develop a thesis about the commentary your chosen author is making on any given theme
4. Also bring in other “expert” arguments/interpretations about the author’s work- use this to help support your thesis or even refute
You may use any of the works under “The Romantic Period” except for:
Neither Uncle Tom’s Cabin nor The Life of Frederick Douglass can be used for this assessment as those two writings are used in a separate assessment.
****use a literary lense to argue(the different kinds are found on purdue owl-Introduction to Literary Theory // Purdue Writing Lab
Different writers to use:
Ralph waldo
Henry David Thoreau
Walt Whitman
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
James Russell Lowell
Oliver Wendall Holmes
Margaret Fuller
Emily Dickenson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Washington Irving
Edgar Allen Poe