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A Study of Literature Isms

istic affirmation by theromanticism ideas (VanSpanckeren, The Romantic Period: Essayists and Poets). Thetranscendentalists believed that the soul of each individual was thought to be identicalwith the world (VanSpanckeren, The Romantic Period: Essayist and Poets). Some examples of romantic writers are the New England transcendentalists(Emerson, Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, Bronson Alcott, and WilliamEllery Channing), Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Edgar Allen Poe (VanSpanckeren, TheRomantic Period: Essayists and Poets). The New England transcendentalist carriedthe expression of philosophical and religious ideas to a high level through essays andlectures (Holman and Harmon). Ralph Waldo Emersons first publication, Nature,shows his romantic view of life of how human being should enjoy the universe in theopening of the essay:Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchers of the fathers. It writesbiographies, histories, criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God andnature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy anoriginal relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry of insight andnot of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs.Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around andthrough us, and invite us by the powers they supply, to action proportioned tonature, why should we grope among the dry bones of the past...? The sunshines today also. There is more wool and flax in the fields. There are newlands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand our own works and laws andworship (qtd. in VanSpanckeren, The Romantic Period: Essayists and Poets).Oliver Wendell Holmes work was renowned because his work was marked by hisrefreshing versatility (VanSpanckeren, The Romantic Period: Essayists and Poets).His works interpreted everything from society and language to medicine and humannature (VanSpanckeren, The Romantic Period: Essayists a...

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