... day" (Baym 740). Margaret Fuller was a friend of Emerson's, a transcendentalist, and even edited the Dial from 1840 to 1842. Her most important contribution, however, was her unparalleled influence in women's rights. In many of her essays and even in the way she lived her life, Margaret Fuller "presented herself as an example of women's abilities" and she defended the "intellectual equality ... of women to men" (Baym 740). Published in 1843, "The Great Lawsuit: Man versus Men ... . Woman versus Women" is a powerful work of literature in which Fuller argues that women can also be self .....

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Emerson, considered the father of the American Literary Renaissance, wrote many essays to ultimately change the societal values surrounding him. In "Self Reliance," Emerson conveys his philosophical idea that every ... Emerson's "Self Reliance" philosophy further by becoming an activist while following his conscious or individual thoughts. An example is Thoreau protesting slavery using Civil Disobedience, "If one HONEST man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this co partnership, and be locked up in ... influenced both poets to speak their u...

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... reader. He wrote unoriginal poems and stories for popular magazines and made political speeches, for which Tammany Hall democrats rewarded him with the editorship of various short-lived newspapers. For two years he edited the influential Brooklyn Eagle , but he lost his position for supporting the Free-Soil ... wrote in the months when he was ministering to the wounded in battlefield hospitals {Bloom, 205}. Other poems followed about the Civil War. An example of one would be a poem called Beat! Beat! Drums!' Beat! beat! drums!-blow! bugles! blow! Make no parley "stop for any ... Walt Wh...

• Word Count: 3004
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• Grade Level: High School