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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 122 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 42 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli 20 0 Browse Search
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Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 6: the Transcendentalists (search)
Plato), of his aunt Mary Moody Emerson, of Thoreau, and of various types of Englishmen in his Eth the words moose and Indian on his lips. Thoreau, like all thinkers who reach below the surfacrase. But to the student of American thought Thoreau's prime value lies in the courage and consistLovers of racial traits like to remember that Thoreau's grandfather was an immigrant Frenchman fromndly President, a year later, in recommending Thoreau as a school-teacher, certified that his rank life. He bends doggedly to the trail, for Henry Thoreau is no quitter, but the trail leads nowhereoods, for the stark and elemental in nature. Thoreau's passion for this aspect of life may have beOnce, toward the close of his too brief life, Thoreau signed on again to an American ideal, and no st the uncivil chaos called Civil Government, Thoreau challenged it to a fight. Indeed he had alree these three figures were, after Emerson and Thoreau, the most representative of the group, the st[11 more...]