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Lumen: American Romanticism: "Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is the text of the essay "Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the foundation of transcendentalism, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature. Transcendentalism suggests that the divine, or God, suffuses...
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Lumen: Romanticism: "The American Scholar" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The American Scholar" is a speech given by Ralph Waldo Emerson on August 31, 1837, to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was invited to speak in recognition of his groundbreaking work "Nature" in which he...
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Repeat After Us: "Song of Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
[To hear audio, use Chrome browser.] This site offers the text and the audio of the poem "Song of Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Poets.org: "Song of Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Full text of the poem "Song of Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882).
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Lumen: Romanticism: "Self Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Self-Reliance" is an essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. It contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes, the need for each individual to avoid...