... 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 series of loosely related impressions, maxims, ... Conventional rhythms, rhyme patterns, and stanza forms, as well as economy of phrasing and simplicity of imagery characterize his poetry. Henry David Thoreau was an American writer who is remembered for his attacks on the social institutions he considered immoral and for his faith...

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... political. Transcendentalism influenced writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, who is responsible for the writing of NATURE and SELF-RELIANCE. Henry David Thoreau was also influenced by this time, making history by writing WALDEN, OR LIFE IN THE WOODS and RESISTANCE TO CIVIL GOVERNMENT. The AGE OF REALISM, from 1835-1910, explained why ordinary people behave the way they do. Realistic novelists ... ...

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