| A | B |
| Poe | R or AT |
| Hawthorne | AT |
| Thoreau | T |
| Emerson | T |
| Typically philosophical | T |
| were also known as teh Dark Romantics | AT |
| Melville | AT |
| wanted to flee from nature | R |
| viewed poetry as the highest expression of imagination | R |
| went to the city to find success | C |
| believed that nature could be understood and mastered because it operates with set rules | C |
| viewed nature as a self-contained machine | C |
| Wrote over topis such as Nature, the Past, Inner World of Human Nature - Psych. | R |
| Acknowledged the existence of Sin, pain and evil | AT |
| Were incredibly optomistic | T |