... and literature of American civilization. He was an essayist, critic, poet, orator, and popular philosopher. He brought together elements from the past and shaped them into literature that had an important effect on later American writing. He influenced the work of Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, and Robert Frost. Emerson's essays are a ... particularly by the young people of his day. The book expressed the main principles of a new philosophical movement called transcendentalism. Soon after its publication, a discussion group was formed w...

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... his works, but with those experiences were his transcendentalist points of view he was trying to get across. This is reason why he was misunderstood in his own time people, merely read his books and dismissed them as nature books, it is the same reason that many of today's younger generation think of him as a hero. Henry David Thoreau was born on ... objected to the use of the revenues of the poll tax. The revenues were used to help finance the United States" war with Mexico and supported the enforcement of slavery laws. Not only did Henry refuse to pay the tax but he also refused Sam S...

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