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Ralph Waldo Emerson. INTUITIVE SAGE POET. Emerson. Transcendentalist manifesto- Nature (1836) There is Correspondence between human soul and everything that exist in the world. Man contains all within himself. Emerson.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson INTUITIVE SAGE POET
Emerson • Transcendentalist manifesto- Nature (1836) • There is Correspondence between human soul and everything that exist in the world. • Man contains all within himself.
Emerson • Journal- struggle with philosophical ideas “in order to achieve personal and artistic integration in an age destitute of faith, but terrified at scepticism.”
Emerson • Individualism and belief in the primacy of personality- admired hero, genius, great man. • Seeking integration with nature. • Critical of emergent American commercialism