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Essay Archive - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Properly Acknowledged by
Ralph Waldo Emerson certainly took his place in the history of American
Literature . He lived in a time when romanticism was becoming a way of thinking
and beginning to bloom in America, the time period known as The Romantic Age.
Romantic thinking stressed on human imagination and emotion rather than on basic
facts and reason. Ralph Waldo Emerson not only provided plenty of that, but he
also nourished it and inspired many other writers of that time. "His influence
can be found in the works of Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman,
Emily ....
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