Poe, Hawthorne, Irving and Romanticism Considering Romanticism in Literature By Examining Stories By Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The Romantic literary tradition is exemplified by Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. This paper examines that tradition in the form of The Cask of Amontillado, Ligeia and The Black Cat (Poe), The May-Pole of Merry Mount and Endicott and the Red Cross (Hawthorne) and Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Irving). This paper has five pages and four sources are listed in the bibliography.