Emerson, Melville and Whitman

The way I read this world was influenced by reading this term. I thought that I had read Emerson and Melville before, I heard the depth of their work and I could not appreciate it enough. This semester is also my first contact with Whitman. Most similar to my new view is that the universe is a shade and a yang image, which is a complete and uninterrupted whole, where the opposite of the two extremes is constantly colliding. But more importantly, I am deeply reminded of the doctrine of "independence", a doctrine shared by three authors.

Matthiessen set the classics of American Renaissance writers: Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman. Indeed, other works lived in their majestic shadows for many years. But this is a fairly compact group. Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorn, Melville, like Margaret Fuller, even friends and neighbors know each other. They were very clear about Poe's work (he died in 1849), and he wrote an article about Emerson. Whitman argues that Emerson brought his "squatting, swearing, swearing" into creative boiling. Dickinson is devoted to Emerson's work, but she rarely agrees. Apart from Whitman, the authors of this era argue each personal vision and art, deny the most obvious influence, but understand that you have not seen countless connections and influences It Is difficult. After all, they are romantic individualists!

Critic Ralph Waldo Emerson of the same writer tried to convince Whitman to give up a controversial sexy passage, but Whitman refused. But when it was first announced in 1855, Emerson wrote a letter to Whitman, "I think it is the rarest tact and wisdom that the US has made so far" . I did not express a warm welcome to this. In this book, they accuse the oil and make them angry. The Boston Surveillance Association and the New York Suppression Stress Book Association to prohibit the sale of books and "the legal prohibition of a duplicate copy of duplication by deputy repressor deputy" led to "being forbidden by Boston" in 1882 It was.