------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------          51 of 51  Subj:   No Subject Date:   Wed, 7 Nov 2001 2:29:46 PM Eastern Standard Time From:   ResearchEssays To:   Calbear7 Dark Romantics was a term coined in reference to the writers whose literary content emphasized in the ideas of sin, guilt, and predestination. Three writers encompassed this category, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. Even though all three of these writers were considered Dark Romantics, they all went about expressing themselves in different ways. In Poes …showed first 75 words of 956 total…

…showed last 75 words of 956 total…light; how similar. They all wrote about the inner workings of the mind, sin, and other things, but went about it in different ways. Whether it be Poes use of alliteration, Hawthornes simplistic writing, or Melvilles figures of speech. Some may say that they were a little crazy or weird; but they were real; they had a deeper understanding of life and the way people really acted and felt.ad a deeper understanding of life.