Emerson, Ralph Waldo
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO (1803–1882), American essayist, poet, and lecturer, was a leading figure among the New England Transcendentalists. Born in Boston, Emerson was descende...
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo(1803–1882)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, the American author and leader of New England transcendentalism, was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His father, a locally distinguished Unit...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was the most thought-provoking American cultural leader of the mid-19th century. In his unorthodox ideas and actions he represented a minority of Americans, but by the ...
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Emerson is perhaps the single most influential figure in American literary history. More than any other author of his day, he was responsible for shaping the literary style and vision of the American...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson was not a practicing literary critic in the sense that Edgar Allan Poe and William Dean Howells were, and he was not a theorist as Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Sche...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson's contribution to magazine journalism consists of his work in connection with the Dial, the voice of early American transcendentalism. A major force in the creation of the journal,...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, the most renowned New England Transcendentalist, stirred Victorian American audiences with his message of self-reliance, philosophical idealism, and forward-looking optimism. Emer...
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No one has a better claim than Ralph Waldo Emerson to being the central figure in the whole history of American literature. All artists distill influences from the past to become, themselves, influenc...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson is perhaps the most influential and pivotal figure in American literary history. As a writer he was a major nineteenth-century craftsman of American cultural identity. Emerson brou...
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Biography EssayRalph Waldo Emerson is perhaps the single most influential figure in American literary history More than any other author of his day, he was responsible for shaping the literary style a...
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Following the highly organized and reasoned thought of the Revolutionary Period, American writers began to develop original and abstract ideas that contradicted previous conceptions of Age of Reason ...
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Some readers, critics especially, believe Ralph Waldo Emerson's writing to be unconvincing because of the optimism that seems fake and unrealistic. Harold Bloom, a very prominent figure in contempora...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self Reliance, Henry David Thoreau's Where I
Lived and What I Lived For, Nathaniel Hawthorne's Dr. Heidegger's
Experiment and Herman Melville's Moby Dick are all considered ...
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The American literature of the nineteenth century is characterised by a spirit of Romanticism. The years, from 1828 to 1865, from the Jacksosian era to the Civil War is called "the American Romantic P...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau believed strongly in the self. They were both transcendentalists, and thought that the decisions that a person makes in life should be for themselves, and ...
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COMPARING AUTHORS
The author, Richard Wright, and the author, Ralph Waldo Emerson, differ greatly in their personal lives, literary lives, and their literary selections. Through viewing these aspec...
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This Great Nation
Have you ever tried to have a conversation with somebody that doesn't have any interest
with your vision about something, but has no problem telling his/her semi-researched opin...
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
