ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

AMERICAN LITERATURE

ELIZABETHAN ERA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Why do we call Ralph Waldo Emerson the “Father of American Literature”?
A
First native american to publish life writing
B
Mentor to other writers
C
Literary Maverick
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Ralph Waldo Emerson is the father of American Literature. In a series of strikingly original essays written in the mid-nineteenth century, he fundamentally changed the way America saw its cultural and artistic possibilities, enabling its separation from transatlantic literary traditions.

Detailed explanation-2: -In his lifetime, Ralph Waldo Emerson became the most widely known man of letters in America, establishing himself as a prolific poet, essayist, popular lecturer, and an advocate of social reforms who was nevertheless suspicious of reform and reformers.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ralph Waldo Emerson-essayist, minister, poet and philosopher from New England-was the founding father of the transcendentalist movement and the creator of many literary works praising nature and its relationship to humanity and creation.

Detailed explanation-4: -Romanticism is one of their most important historical events of all times. It refers to the birth of a new set of ideas, It is about a mindset and a way of feeling . Romanticism is best understood as a reaction to birth of the modern world.

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