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NEW ENGLAND RENAISSANCE (Transcendentalists (((((to transcend means: to…
NEW ENGLAND RENAISSANCE
The literary Response
A group of writers appeared whom we know the as the classic. Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau. Around this time Walt Whitman and Emily Dikinson showed up. This marked the first half of the nineteenth century.
The first steps were taken by Irving, Cooper, Bryant and Poe
Huge step was done by Emerson when he wrote The American Scholar in 1837. It inspired the nation and to changed everything.
Transcendentalists
to transcend means: to rise above, to pass beyond limits
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Transcendentalism is a formidable term describing the movement in American culture that energized much of the literature this period
It refers to a large group of men and women who were very different from one an other both as individuals and as writers.
The darker Visions
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Not all authors shared the same optimism, there were writers who saw the universe as a more confusing and difficult place.
Nature was confusing, ambiguous , not easy to read, interpret or harmonize
The American Romance
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Hawthorne says for him romance doesn't need to be totally faithful to reality, It could be improbable, eccentric and unbelievable as long as it is true to the human heart.
The Fireside poets
They did not form an organized group, but history has linked them for what they had in common
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Henry Wadsworth, Oliver Wendell. James Russell Lowell. John Greenleaf and sometimes William Cullen Bryant.