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Two authors best who typify a Romantic style of writing are Edgar Allen Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Both authors identify their characters through the use of creative symbolism, colorful metaphors, and the use of the supernatural in their works. Like many auth ....

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.... of Virginia, then served two years as an enlisted man in the army . Poe also attended West Point Military Academy for a short time, after his Army stint. Poe grew very fond of writing and published his first book of poetry in 1827 at the age of sixteen. Poe is considered one of the first nineteenth century writers to establish aesthetic principles regarding short fiction stories as a high art, and one of the forefathers in the Romantic Movement. Poe stressed the idea of a well developed imagination through the identification of the characters, and the use of symbolism to enhance the atmosphere of the story. He used symbols to explain the ....