ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -For Emerson, nature is not God but the body of God’s soul-"nature, ” he writes, is “mind precipitated.” Emerson feels that to fully realize one’s role in this respect is to be in paradise. He ends “Nature” with these words: “Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form.

Detailed explanation-2: -By 1834 he had found a permanent dwelling place in Concord, Massachusetts, and in the following year he married Lydia Jackson and settled into the kind of quiet domestic life that was essential to his work. The 1830s saw Emerson become an independent literary man.

Detailed explanation-3: -Born in Boston to William and Ruth Haskins Emerson. Father dies, probably of tuberculosis. Begins study at Harvard College: Greek, Latin, History, Rhetoric. Starts first journal, entitled “The Wide World.”