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 Dickinson, Henry James, and Robert Frost.". No doubt, Ralph Waldo Emerson
was an astute and intellectual man who influenced American Literature and has
rightly received the credit that he deserves from historians. He has been
depicted as a leading figure in American thought and literature, or at least
ranks up there with the very best. But there is so much more to Ralph......
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