爱默生《自然》读后感.docxVIP

陈之童 英142班 149134038 Emerson’s View of Nature Nature is the first collection of essays written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, where he put forth the foundation of transcendentalism, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature. There are three major concepts in Transcendentalists’ view of nature: Firstly, the Transcendentalists place emphasis on spirit, or the Oversoul, as the most important thing in the universe. Oversoul was put forward in Emerson’s essay Nature, when he described the mysterious unity of nature. It exist in nature and man alike and constitute the chief ele