The 19th century have been dominated by a movement known as Romanticism. This movement is defined as a strong belief that imagination and emotion are stronger than reason. "A conviction that poetry is superior to science.....belief that contemplation of the natural world is a means of discovering a truth that lies behind reality." (Holt, Elements of Literature, 1183) Authors, such as Emerson with his work of "Self Reliance", and Thoreau's work of "Where I Lived and What I Lived for" and "Solitude" are works of literature that incorporate the ideas of romanticism. There work would later inf…
