... trained in law. Bryant wrote his finest poetry in his youth. The first draft of "Thanatopsis," his most famous poem, was written when he was 16 years of age, and he was only 27 years old when his first published volume, Poems, appeared in 1821. Poems included, in addition to "Thanatopsis,", "Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood," "Green River," and "To a Waterfowl." From ... townspeople of Tilbury, whose inner depths of character are presented with acute understanding and irony. In 1899 Robinson moved to New York City, where his volume Captain Craig and Other Poems (1902) attracted li...

• Word Count: 1931
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." This famous quote reflects the tension felt between the individual and society for some of the later Romantic writers and is apparent in their work. Transcendentalists, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and ... that prison is a place where "a free man can abide with honor" (Baym 972). Although not widely accepted at first, "Resistance to Civil Government" became a "world-famous essay on the relationship of the individual to the state" and inspired many influent...

• Word Count: 1963
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... one another in the poem "Reconciliation" ("For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead"). The sequel to the "Drum Taps" collection ("Sequel to Drum Taps") contains the famous eulogy on the Civil War president Abraham Lincoln; "O Captain! My Captain!". "Exult O shores, and ring O bells! But I with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead ... against fellow man, though at first it was for a cause that furthered unity and equality during his childhood. Another of his poem collections, "Sea Drift", Whitman swings to transcendentalism the poems often-conta...

• Word Count: 1470
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... editor for a brief time of the "New Orleans Crescent". In that city he became fascinated with the French language. Many of his poems contain words of French derivation. It was in New Orleans that he experienced at first hand the viciousness of slavery in the slave markets ... boundless faith in American democracy, Whitman tempered his version by his experiences as a volunteer hospital nurse during the Civil War (described in his poems Drumtaps and his wartime letters). After the war, he held secretarial jobs to support himself, and lost one such job when his employer's scandalized ... ...

• Word Count: 1529
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... in his lectures. Thoreau's profession as a writer started in June 1840, when in a new journal called The Dial, the first of many of his poems and essay's were published. A total of thirty-one of his essays, poems, and translations were printed. "It had given him the confidence that he could write what was worth reading" (The Days of Henry Thoreau ... future. The west is full of promise: ". . . I saw that [the west] was a Rhine stream of a different kind; that the foundations of castles were yet to be laid, and the famous bridges were yet to be thrown over the river; and I felt that THIS...

• Word Count: 2159
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... about 4 philosophers that I agreed with in a positive way. Self-Exploration o Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Emerson wrote many journals and essays dealing with the subject of transcendentalism. One of his most famous works is the essay "Self-Reliance."" In "Self-Reliance,"" Emerson hit on the idea that the individual should be completely reliant on God, and that every person has been put ... to say that, "To be great is to be misunderstood- (217). Emerson is obviously the father of transcendentalism, and his great ideas were conveyed in his brilliant essays, journals, and poems. He helped p...

• Word Count: 1895
• Approx Pages: 8

... about 4 philosophers that I agreed with in a positive way. Self-Exploration o Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Emerson wrote many journals and essays dealing with the subject of transcendentalism. One of his most famous works is the essay "Self-Reliance."" In "Self-Reliance,"" Emerson hit on the idea that the individual should be completely reliant on God, and that every person has been put ... to say that, "To be great is to be misunderstood- (217). Emerson is obviously the father of transcendentalism, and his great ideas were conveyed in his brilliant essays, journals, and poems. He helped p...

• Word Count: 1895
• Approx Pages: 8