Essay A: mid-length essay from A1 or A2

A1. Review & prioritize your learning in American Renaissance

Karin Cooper, The Most Important Romantic Things

Hilda Cruz, Not Alone    (continued > > >)

A1. Review & prioritize your learning in American Renaissance . . .

Tanner McLean, American Renaissance and Personal Enlightenment

Nathan Mesloh, How American Renaissance Influenced Me

Rachel Morris, The Importance of the American Renaissance

Elizabeth Myers, Reflecting on the American Renaissance

Cyndi Perkins, What I Have Learned

Joshua Van Horn, American Renaissance: Moving Past the “Here and Now”

A1. OR describe your learning about Romanticism as a term or concept . . .

Sarah Hurt, Variety in Romanticism

Michael McDonald, The Distinguished Man

Heidi Kreeger, Lyrically Learned

Michael McDonald, Whose Line Is It Anyway

Tanner McLean, Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson: Same Time, Different Style

Nathan Mesloh, Comparing the Three Major Poets

Rachel Morris, Lyricality in Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson

Elizabeth Myers, The Lyrical Attributes of Poe, Dickinson, and Whitman

Cyndi Perkins, The Diversity of American Poets

Joshua Van Horn, Romantic Poetry: Formal, Free and Transcendent

Essay C: One (1) long essay
from C1, C2, C3, C4, or C5 (6-9 paragraphs)

C1. Variations on the Gothic.

Karin Cooper, Dank, Dark and Disgusting: The Gothic

C2. Literature & Morality.

Joshua Van Horn, Moral Complexity in the Romantic Era