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17 Cards in this Set
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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most famous for "self reliance" essay
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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wanted to change the way we looked at god
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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no writer has been more influencial in shaping americal literature than ____________.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought of Transcendentalism
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transcendentalism
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was a philosophical and leterary movement that flourished in new england as a reaction against 18th century rationalism
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Transcendentalism
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its beliefs were idealistic, mystical, and eclectic and individualistic. More like eastern than puritanism.
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Based on the identification of the individual soaul with god, there developed the doctrine of _________________ and ________________, the disregard of external authority, tradition and logical demonstration.
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Self reliance and indivudualism.
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monism
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unity of world and god
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oversoul
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the soul of each individual is identical with soul of the world
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Henry David Thoreau
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Most famous for book walden
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henry david thoreau
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lived in nature for two years and wrote a book
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Emily Dickenson
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did not leave her house for last ten years of her life
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Emily Dickenson
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After 1862 she only wore white
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Emily Dickenson
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only 7 of their poems were published in their lifetime against their will.
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Emerson
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went to harvard
not in ministry like family |
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walden is arranged by____
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season
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thoreau
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wasnt revered in his own lifetime
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