Literature changed from puritan reasoning to a more artistic focus, with ideas stressing individualism and the common person. some of the authors of this romantic movement were:
a. franklin, paine, wheatley
b. emerson, thoreau, whitman
c. poe, melville, hawthorne
d. bierce, london, crane

Poe, Melville, Hawthorne

Explanation:

Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville were three of the most important exponents of the romanticism movement, these three writers were part of the dark romanticism which was directly influenced by transcendentalism, this style of the romantic movement is less positive than the other alternatives.

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