LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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Henry David Thoreau
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Edgar Allan Poe
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James Earl Jones
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Detailed explanation-1: -He attended the Boston Latin School, Harvard University, and the Harvard School of Divinity. Licensed as a minister in 1826, he was ordained to the Unitarian church in 1829.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1812 Emerson entered the Boston Public Latin School, where his juvenile verses were encouraged and his literary gifts recognized. In 1817 he entered Harvard College (later Harvard University), where he began his journals, which may be the most remarkable record of the “march of Mind” to appear in the United States.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ralph Waldo Emerson is most famous for his essay “Self-Reliance.” This essay, first published in 1841, outlines Emerson’s philosophy of individualism and self-reliance, and it remains one of his most widely read and influential works.