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Dark romanticism
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Dark romanticism is a literary subgenre that emerged from the Transcendental philosophical movement popular in nineteenth-century America. Works in the dark romantic spirit were influenced by Transcendentalism, but did not entirely...
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Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest...
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- Jan 19, 1809
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- Oct 7, 1849 (age 40 years)
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Herman Melville
Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet who is often classified as part of dark romanticism. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and novella Billy Budd, the latter...
Date of birth:
- Aug 1, 1819
Date of death:
- Sep 28, 1891 (age 72 years)
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John Polidori
John William Polidori (7 September 1795 – 24 August 1821) was an Italian-English physician and writer, known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction. His most...
Date of birth:
- Sep 7, 1795
Date of death:
- Aug 24, 1821 (age 25 years)
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George Byron, 6th Baron Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. Amongst Byron's best-known works...
Date of birth:
- Jan 22, 1788
Date of death:
- Apr 19, 1824 (age 36 years)
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Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus ...
Date of birth:
- Aug 30, 1797
Date of death:
- Feb 1, 1851 (age 53 years)
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer.
Nathaniel Hathorne was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and Elizabeth Clarke Manning...
Date of birth:
- Jul 4, 1804
Date of death:
- May 19, 1864 (age 59 years)
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Sheridan Le Fanu
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the premier ghost story writer of the nineteenth century and had a seminal influence on the development of this genre in...
Date of birth:
- Aug 28, 1814
Date of death:
- Feb 7, 1873 (age 58 years)
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English pronunciation: /ˈkoʊlrɪdʒ/) (21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in...
Date of birth:
- Oct 21, 1772
Date of death:
- Jul 25, 1834 (age 61 years)
