AMERICAN LITERATURE
TRUE AND FALSE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Nietzsche loved Emerson from first to last. Nietzsche’s interest in and admiration of Emerson began when he was still a schoolboy and continued throughout his productive life. He studiously annotated and copied whole passages from German translations of Emerson’s essays.
Detailed explanation-2: -German philosopher, poet and philologist Friedrich Nietzsche was influenced profoundly by the works of the noble American essayist, lecturer and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson, who led the transcendentalist movement in the 19th century.
Detailed explanation-3: -Novelists like Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, André Malraux, André Gide, and John Gardner were inspired by him and wrote about him, as did the poets and playwrights George Bernard Shaw, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stefan George, and William Butler Yeats, among others.