Am Lit Part 6

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when did Transcendentalism emerge in America:

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@ 1815

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when did Transc. get its 1st published ~statement/defn. :
what work?
who?

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1836 NATURE by
RalphWaldoEMERSON

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which writers embraced Transcendentalism:

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Emerson
Thoreau
Whitman

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which writers did NOT (overall) like Transcendentalism:

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critics:
Hawthorne &
Melville

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What did these 2 groups
(EmersonThoreauWhitman &
HawthorneMelville)
make up~.....:

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the term is coined later in history
AMERICAN RENAISSANCE

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main idea of
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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everything in Nature--has it's exact counterpart in Mind !

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in "Nature", how does Emerson view nature:

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nature is a commodity: it accomodates our practical needs, then goes onto beauty, language, discipline, idealism, Spirit--the Absolute!

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between "Nature" and evil, what does Emerson say is the correlation:

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Emerson says as we become more in touch with nature, it becomes more positive--less evils from it

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rwEmerson's bkf what essay:

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"Self-Reliance" Emerson's best known essay.

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major idea of "Self-Reliance" essay:

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since we can (transcend) be direct-connected to God's truth, we can then be self-reliant

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imp. quote from "Self-Reliance"
rwEmerson

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"Trust your emotion [intuition]...when the devout motions of the soul come yield to them heart and life"

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~What if your (rwEmerson) intuitive "yielding" doesn't make sense w/your rational mind?

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Ignore it (rational or intuition?)
"A foolish consistency is the hobglobin of little minds"

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"A foolish consistency is the hobglobin of little minds"

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rw Emerson

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who wrote "The Divinity School Address" :

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rw Emerson

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What is main advice of "Divinty School Address" ?

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"dare to love God without mediator or veil"
love god self-reliantly, don't conform to forms of Church

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What does rw Emerson "say" in "the American Scholar" essay:

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"Books are for the scholar's idle time" (merely the record of others' thoughts--idea is to aim for self-reliance to get to truth

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"The Poet"
who wrote it
form

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rw Emerson, essay: asks writers for poetry images in AMERICA and forms that work for the ind. writer--even if it is not traditional

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another poetry idea by rw Emerson:

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poems ALREADY exist in nature and await revelation by the poet

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"The Oversoul"
who wrote it
form

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rw Emerson, essay:
God/man, men/women have a mystic "unity" : every being is contained and made one with all other beings (*tie in to democratic ideals of U.S.)

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rw Emerson's
method of composition:

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overstatement for shock value;
repetition/rephrasing of same ideas (over & over!)

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rw Emerson wants poets to use what as symbols:

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please use concrete images as symbols; ****influenced Whitman, Dickinson and (generally) modernist poetry

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Emerson poems:

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Each & All
The Problem
Hamatreya
Uriel
Merlin

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overall theme of rw Emerson's poetry:

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Emerson's recurring theme in his poems:
connections with the cosmos, dude!

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Margaret Fuller is most renowned for:

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first editor of "The Dial"

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what is "The Dial"

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the mouthpiece of Transcendentalism, most important magazine!
Maggie Fuller is first editor--you go, girl!

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images to help remember Margaret Fuller 's role in Transcendentalism

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Maggie--you go girl--Fuller
" The Dial "
dials up focus on Transcendentalism

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Margaret (Maggie) Fuller's best known book & theme:

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"Woman in the 19th Century"
argued w/Emerson-- that women are inherently divine, too! fool!

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Margaret (Maggie) Fuller's writing had 2 main themes:

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*male/female balance in each person
*abolitionist view of female bondage to men--get rid of it!