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美国文学史及作品选读Unit 3

Unit 3 High Romanticism: Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau High Romanticism: Transcendentalism It was in the hands of the Transcendentalists that American literature really matured and American Romanticism reached its summit. It is religious, philosophical, and literary. In 1836, a little book came out which made a tremendous impact on the intellectual life of America. It was entitled Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Nature’s voice pushed American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of New England Transcendentalism, the summit of American Romanticism. “The Un

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