Both Poe and Hawthorne have many similarities in their writings. Their writings were both evil and nature and filled with sin and guilt. These two authors played a huge role in 8the literary anti-transcendentalism movement. Unlike romantic styled stories, anti-transcendentalist writers created stories about limitations and the destructiveness of the human spirit. These authors also believed that humans were bitter, sinful and evil beings. (Anderson and letting 1). The Anti-Transcendentalism played a huge role in The Dark Romantics writers. Dark Romantic writers ignored society's current situation and focused on moral dilemmas. However,the belief of the destructiveness of the human spirit, evil being an active force in the world,and the focusing
