American Transcendentalism |
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Constructed in Spring 1999 by Virginia Commonwealth University graduate students studying in Ann Woodlief's Literature in Society course. Submissions of additional texts, papers, and links are invited.
Description, definitions, bibliography, links, focused on students.
How Emerson and Thoreau failed to apply their non-conformist ideas consistently, making their philosophy of transcendentalism one of conformity rather than liberation.
Towards a Definition of Transcendentalism: A Few Comments (from Henry David Gray, Emerson: A Statement of N. E. Transcendentalism as Expressed in the Philosophy of Its Chief Exponent, 1917)
From students at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Open-minded people must use common sense to determine whether God/Allah was incorrectly perceived, misinterpreted and misunderstood by the masses of a bygone era.
Arts /
Literature /
World_Literature /
American /
19th_Century /
Emerson,_Ralph_Waldo
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