Emerson's Influence on Thoreau

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May 17, 2016

 

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In “Nature,” Emerson wrote, “In the woods, we return to reason and faith….” However, it was Thoreau who took this literally and tests Emerson’s ideas about nature by living at Walden Pond. Strongly influenced by Transcendentalism, Thoreau believed in the “perfectibility of mankind through education, self-exploration and spiritual awareness...
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Even the transcendentalists' most literary works are explorations, open-ended and suggestive, both conducted by the author and, as they always hoped, the reader As usual with this group, Ralph Waldo Emerson set the tone for discussions about education, especially with his Harvard lecture, "The American Scholar "[1837] which has had endless "rewritings" by Phi Beta Kappa lecturers and writers; his later unfinished" Essay on Education" shows his lifelong interest in the subject...
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