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* (拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生) 1803~~1882 The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. ----R.W.Emerson （做好一件事的报酬就是完成它。） ※His major works ※The feature of his works Focus on the two points ★Major Works： Nature 《论自然》 1836 The American Scholar 《美国学者》 1837 The Divinity School Address 《神学院演说》 1838 《论文集》 《论自助》 1841 Self-Reliance over-soul 《论超灵》 1841 Works 作品 Time Essays 《散文一集》 1841 Representative Men 《代表性人物》 1850 English Traits 《英国人的特性》 1856 Works 作品 Time First series Second series 《散文二集》 1844 Poems 《诗集》 1846 ★Major Works: Nature Nature is one of Emersons best-known and most influential essays, it is a lyrical（抒情的） expression of the harmony Emerson felt between himself and nature. The main idea of the essay is that nature inspires spiritual understanding in human being. Its considered as the Bible of Transcendentalism（超验主义）. The American Scholar In this essay, Emerson calls for a distinctive American style, dealing with American subjects. Thus, regarded as Americas Declaration of Intellectual Independence（被视为美国的知识独立宣言） The Divinity School Address The address touched off a major controversy（论战） among American Unitarian theologians, primarily about the necessity of belief in the historical truth of the Biblical miracles, but involving other secondary issues as well. The Unitarian establishment of New England and of Harvard Divinity School rejected Emersons teachings outright for the next thirty years. Self-Reliance It is his significant work which expresses his idea of transcendentalism, one focus of which is the primacy of the individual. so it explores individualism at the heart of Emersons Transcendental faith: the dignity and the ultimate sanctity of each human being. Believe in Yourself is the core point of Self-Reliance. ★Analysis of the work Mode of perception Poetic language symbolic language ⑴Mode of perception(感知方式） ①self-reliance(自助） Emersons real task as a writer is to demonstrate a way of seeing in which the individual eye, free of the constraints of