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Title: Ralph Waldo Emerson


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Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • INTUITIVE SAGE POET

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Emerson
  • Transcendentalist manifesto- Nature (1836)
  • There is Correspondence between human soul and
    everything that exist in the world.
  • Man contains all within himself.

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Emerson
  • Journal- struggle with philosophical ideas in
    order to achieve personal and artistic
    integration in an age destitute of faith, but
    terrified at scepticism.

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Emerson
  • Individualism and belief in the primacy of
    personality- admired hero, genius, great man.
  • Seeking integration with nature.
  • Critical of emergent American commercialism
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