How does a Romantic differ from a Dark Romantic?

The Dark Romantics was created in response to the "light romantics"(aka Transcendalists, Romantics), while the Light Romantics believe in a greater good, meaning good always triumps over evil, and...

The Romantic Movement was a movement against the Enlightment. The Enlightment was focused on logic, or logos. The Romantic Movement, however, rejected logic and reason to guide decisions, and instead...

They believed in sex.

The Dark Romantics explored the civilization of the Goths.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe were considered Dark Romantics .