Ralph H. Baer

Revolutions all across the globe had constituted to an era, which brought forth to some of the most influential artists and writers of the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century. In particular, the revolutions pertaining to America such as the Declaration of Independence, in 1776, gave many artists new subjects to consider such as contradicting political views, economic actualization and strong cultural and social diversity. When these feelings were brought forth into works of art, the…

the novel Walden, which is a novel explaining to the American public about when he isolated himself at Walden pond from the rest of the American society. His writings at Walden pond fits the goals of the transcendentalists mindsets because much like Ralph Waldo Emerson and other transcendentalist during his time Thoreau believes in nonconformity. Meaning that Thoreau does not agree with going along with the flaws of the society in America, because it will overwhelm the American public as a…

Santiago the main character of the book ‘The Alchemist’ lives in a small village his dream was to travel the world. He love books he always had a book with him. By becoming shepherd he wanted to travel the world away from his little, small village. His parents wanted that their son should lead ordinary life like any other person in their village. They wanted that their son should become a priest. His father like all other parents try to explain him that what you are doing is not wrong but…

It is this position of power in conjunction with his comments on the scientific community of the Victorian age in his poetry that Tennyson gained the eye of scientists and intellectuals of the day, who found validation and public sympathy through Tennyson and his poetry. Tennyson was of great value to the scientific community because of his standing with society as a “public moralist.” With science and knowledge’s unstable relationship with the religious public, Tennyson served as a connection…

Author T.S. Eliot’s Influence on American Literary History Author T.S. Eliot, was an American-English poet, playwriter, literary critic, an editor and was a major contributor and leader of the Modernist movement in poetry. From his works like “The Waste Land” and then the what some call sequel “The Hollow Men,” Eliot’s style of writing not only had a huge influence on American literary history but also influenced many other writers such as Derek Walcott and Kamau Brathwaite. After reading some…

Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston, MA in 1803. At the age of fourteen he attended Harvard University. He graduated at the age of eighteen and started working as a school teacher. While teaching, he wrote his first book “Nature.” He continued to write and publish books and essays. His most famous essay is titled “Self Reliance.” Emerson is popularly referred to as the founder of the Transcendental Movement. The Transcendental Movement is a philosophical set of convictions that arose due to…

Ian Marshall is a scholar in ecological issues and American essence literature. Marshall has written a handful of books and numerous articles. I've choose two of his literary criticism articles because we both share a passion and love for nature. The first article that sparked my interest was, Literal and Metaphoric Harmony with Nature: Ecofeminism and Harriet Prescott Spofford's “Circumstance” and the second article was “Tales of the Wonderful Hunt”. Immediately after reading both works, I…

Transcendentalism is a movement that has themes of going against society and materialistic things, while embracing nature and spirituality. Chris McCandless is a Transcendentalist in every sense of the word. The young adventurer, who is the protagonist in Jon Krakauer's nonfiction text Into the Wild, travels across Northern America. Following three main ideals; the disconnection of society, a minimalist lifestyle, and a deep respect for both God and nature, he attempts to find himself and…

Transcendentalism is a philosophy that originated in the 1830's. Its chief aficionado, Ralph Waldo Emerson, began the movement by meeting regularly with other intellectuals of the time to discuss a various array of topics. The Transcendentalism movement was the mainstream flow of writers in the New England Renaissance, large in part to it affected all of the scholars of the period. The contrasting philosophy anti- Transcendentalism was a small philosophical movement predominantly consisting of…

Verlaine also was a symbolist who added a great contribution to the development of symbolism. He was more concerned with mood rather than meaning, and he believed himself the most powerful of all the decadent, that was clear when he quotes “I am the empire at the end of the decadence”. Paul was imbued by the works of baudlére especially in his work “the flower of evil” that encouraged him to write, and he was also considered a decadent. Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud as decadents reacted to…