SOURCE: "The Nature of War in Emerson's 'Boston Hymn,'" in Arizona Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 3, Autumn, 1993, pp. 21-58.
In this excerpt Cadava discusses the relation between historical events and Emerson's poem, "The Boston Hymn," focusing on Emerson's response to the Emancipation Proclamation, abolition, and the moral necessity for the Civil War as factors in the poem's creation. Cadava also links Emerson's presentation of God and use of natural imagery to Puritan concepts.
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