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Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau: Preaching and Practicing Transcendentalism

By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Punch Audio, Alex Hyde-White
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Summary

Includes inspirational quotes from both Emerson and Thoreau

Includes Emerson's article about Thoreau's life in the August 1862 edition of Atlantic Monthly

Includes a Bibliography of their works and secondary works about them.

"Standing on the bare ground, - my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A living dog is better than a dead lion. Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can? Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made. Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." - Henry David Thoreau

In the mid-19th century, Romantic literature was still in full bloom across the West, but some American authors began producing literature that, while still Romantic, was unique enough to be considered a different genre. This new genre, Transcendentalism, focused on the spirituality of the self and nature, not rejecting religion outright but concentrating on pragmatism and the importance of individuals as the spiritual center of the cosmos. In addition to drawing upon the Age of Enlightenment, Transcendentalist authors also utilized the philosophy of Plato, who taught that self-fulfillment through attaining knowledge should be an individual's ultimate goal.

The leader of Transcendentalism, and the man who ushered the movement's practices and literature, was Ralph Waldo Emerson.

©2012 Charles River Editors (P)2015 Charles River Editors

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