The collection presents a wide panorama of the romantic movement in the history of American literature: its origin, the formation of the main genres and the rapid decline in the late 1850s. In the center of the book are monographic essays on the works of E. Poe, N. Hawthorne and G. Melville. They are preceded by a theoretical article on the socio-historical and philosophical premises of American romanticism. The collection ends with a series of notes on significant, albeit little-known, details of the literary history of the United States and its subsequent understanding in criticism. For philologists, as well as a wide range of readers interested in literature and the history of American culture.