• The nature in "Thanatopsis by William Bryant and the American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson"

     

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Published: 01.11.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
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  • Essays 'The nature in "Thanatopsis by William Bryant and the American Scholar by Ralph W', 1.
  • Essays 'The nature in "Thanatopsis by William Bryant and the American Scholar by Ralph W', 2.
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As a matter of fact is, in Thanatopsis by William Bryant it shows us as a Romanticism and Transcendentalism has a relationship or concerns with American style. Romanticism was a reaction against Classicism, Romanticism championed imagination and the emotions and it was an attitude toward nature, humanity and society that espoused freedom and individualism. Consequently, that echoing the ideals of equality set forth in the declaration of independence and offered a parallel to growing sense of nationalism.
In American Romanticism was yielding to philosophy of Transcendentalism, which like t…

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