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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 4 Edwards
Chapter 4: Edwards Paul Elmer More, A. M., Ll.D., Formerly Editor of The Nation.
Edwards's early years.
his marriage.
his journal.
his love of God.
his preaching.
the great Awakening.
narrative of surprising Conversions.
thoughts on the revival of religion.
marks of a work of the true spirit.
treatise concerning religious affections.
the quarrel with the Northampton congregation.
Stockbridge.
President of the College of New Jersey.
death.
the relations of Edwards to the deistic controversy.
the freedom of the will
Jonathan Edwards was born at Windsor, Connecticut, in 1703.
He belonged, unlike his great contemporary Franklin in this, to the Brahmin families of America, his father being a distinguished graduate of Harvard and a minister of high standing, his mother being the daughter of Solomon Stoddard, a revered pastor of Northampton, Massachusetts, and a religious author of repute.
Jonathan, one of eleven children, showed extraordinary precocity.
Ther
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 9 Emerson
Chapter 9: Emerson Paul Elmer More
The high place of Emerson in American letters.
his youth and training.
his journals.
nature.
essays.
the American scholar.
the divinity School address.
representative men.
English traits.
Emerson's optimism.
Emerson's resignation from the ministry.
its significance.
his place in the romantic movement.
form and style.
ideas.
his failure to perceive the meaning of evil.
the rarity and beauty of his accomplishment
It becomes more and more apparent that Emerson, judged by an international or even by a broad national standard, is the outstanding figure of American letters.
Others may have surpassed him in artistic sensitiveness, or, to a criticism averse to the stricter canons of form and taste, may seem to be more original or more broadly national than he, but as a steady force in the transmutation of life into ideas and as an authority in the direction of life itself he has obtained a recognition such as no other of his c