Emerson promotes the concept of the
imperial self (truth that lies within)
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Emerson promotes the concept of the
imperial self (truth that lies within)
What did Emerson lose his first wife to?
Tuberculosis
What did Emerson write about?
Inspirational essays on non conformity, self reliance and anti-institutionalism
Where was Emerson born?
Boston
Emerson was the son of a ...
minister
Emerson's father ...
died when he was 8 so mother brought him up and opened B&B so she could send sons to Harvard
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
Emerson promotes the concept of the | imperial self (truth that lies within) |
What did Emerson lose his first wife to? | Tuberculosis |
What did Emerson write about? | Inspirational essays on non conformity, self reliance and anti-institutionalism |
Where was Emerson born? | Boston |
Emerson was the son of a ... | minister |
Emerson's father ... | died when he was 8 so mother brought him up and opened B&B so she could send sons to Harvard |
Emersons ... inspired his education | aunt |
After going to school in Harvard Emerson became a ... | Pastor |
What did the death of Emersons wife do to his spirituality | Had a spiritual crisis which became so severe that he had to step down as pastor as he became so skeptical of the validity of the bible |
When Emerson's wife died where did he go? | Europe |
Emerson created a life long friendship with ... | Scott Thomas Carlyle |
After his travels in Europe what did Emerson do to Ellen tucker's family | Sued the and took money to marry new wife and move back to massachusstes (Lydia Jackson) |
What was Emerson's first book? | nature |
"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." | the individual experience nature and transcend to a higher version of the self |
Christopher cranch depicted Emerson as a | transparent eyeball |
Emerson was the father of | Transcendentalism |
Emerson's most famous essay was | self reliance |
"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist." | Emerson, Self-Reliance |
In "Self-Reliance," what does Emerson say about the "reliance on Property"? | That we are weakened by materialism |
what is the main theme of self reliance | The need for each individual to avoid conformity and follow their own instincts and ideas |
Imitation is ... | suicide |
... thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string | trust |
2. True/False: Ralph Waldo Emerson is considered a "dark" Romantic. | false |
Emerson announces at the beginning of Nature that "our age is retrospective." What does "retrospective" mean? | Looking backwards |
"In the woods, is perpetual _______________________." | youth |
"Whoso would be a man, must be a ________________________." | nonconformist |
Transcendentalism was not just a singularly focused movement; instead, it embraced four distinctive movements. What were those four movements? (pcrl) | •A LITERARY MOVEMENT |
Name the three central focal points of Romanticism (nin) | •NATURE |
The paintings featured in the "American Romanticism" PowerPoint are all examples of what concept? | Nature |
In Nature, what is Emerson's attitude toward the wilderness, and how is his attitude different than, say, Mary Rowlandson's? | Reverence |
Who was the most influential writer of the 19th century | Emerson |