On Hawthorne, Poe, "Gothic" writers, etc.

After doing searches on American Romanticism, it seems that a lot of the poets & novelists blur into the "gothic" as well..Can we seperate gothic from the romantic or is american romanticism essentialy just the gothic romantic?

Stephen put in a strong suggestion that we find and use scholarly sources to support the arguement of how our poet fits into the mold or ideas of Romanticism, because American Romanticism is not a clearly defined category..

and maybe I was the only one who was not sure about this but I guess we're focusing on just poetry

and.. I'm going to do Henry Wadsworth Longfellow if thats ok.