1. Writers of the Late Romantic Period
... air, and uplifted into infinite space,-all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. (Baym 217) Throughout the book, Emerson discusses the importance of nature and its relationship to man. According to Emerson, both nature and man are necessary because one is needed in order ... that society dictates. Largely influenced by Emerson, Henry David Thoreau was also an important transcendentalist writer in the Nineteenth Century. As a self-reliant individual in 1845, T...
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