Dark Romanticism

Nathanial Hawthornes Dark Romantic side is his disliking for his great-grandfather who was a judge in the Salem Witch hunt. He knew that his great-grand dad was evil and that god wasn't in him. Herman Melville's Dark Romantic side was from his life experiences. Seeing people eat people probably assured him that god wasn't running through everyones vains. Edgar Allen Poe is just a staright up dark guy, and nothing like a transcendentalist. His family hated him and all of his wives died, he knew life wasn't all happy and joyful, and that people were evil and bad things happen for no reason.