Introduction 1 Romantic period

Articles

1. 
   Bevir, Mark. “British Socialism and American Romanticism” English Historical Review, 1995.
   

http://escholarship.org/uc/item/9kq451tc

2. 
   Brians, Paul. “Romanticism”. March 11, 1988. Web, accessed December 17, 1998. http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/hum_303/romanticism.html
   

3. 
   Dwyer, Molly. “Marry Shelly and The Romantic Imagination”, April 01, 2008, pdf
   
4. 
   Harvey, Bruce Nd,“American Romanticism: Introductory Overview” http://www2.fiu.edu/~harveyb/romover.pdf
   

5. 
   Mathur, Vaibhav. “Romanticism: the Romantic Era of Literature” November 22,2011;
   

https://theotheriitian.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/romanticism-the-romantic-era- of-literature-vaibhav-mathur/

6. 
   Poe, Edgar Allan. “Philosophy of Composition”. 1846. Web accessed April 4, 2011
   

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/poe/composition.html

7. 
   Paanasenko, Nataliya. “Interrelations between Literary Time and Space in Prosaic Text”, University of SS Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Slovakia, 22- 23 April 2009.http://www.pulib.sk/elpub2/FF/Ferencik2/pdf_doc/9.pdf
   

8. 
   Smith, Nicole. “Overview of Romanticism in Literature” December 06,2011; http://www.articlemyriad.com/overview-romanticism-literature/
   

Videos

1) Ackroyed, Peter. “The Romantics-liberty” BBC Documentary: Episode 1, 29 oct. 2015. (1 hour long) https://youtu.be/zt6sBvC6sG0

¹ Edgar Allan Poe, one of the best mysterious American authors, known as the father of the detective story was born in Boston, Massachusetts, October 07^th 1809. His parents were immigrants from Great Britain. After the death of his mother, he became the foster child of the Allan family. As a short story writer, poet, critic and editor, he wrote fiction, mystery, criticism. He was working at several newspapers and literary magazines like Southern Literary Messenger. In 1849, he died at the age of forty under some mysterious circumstances. Among his famous works: “The Raven” (1845); “Eureka” (1848); “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839); “Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841); “the Tell-Tale Heart” (1843). (Benjamin F. Fisher, 2008)

ᶟ The Dead is a short story by James Joyce about the protagonist Gabriel Conroy; a professor who attends a Christmas party held by his aunt’s at which he delivered a speech. By the end of the party and right after dinner, Gabriel witnessed his wife Gretta listening to a song with full intensity of focus. Later in a hotel room, he discovered the reason behind her feelings for the song and realizes that she has been moved by the memory of her former lover Michael Furey who died for her love.