Water
Source: Poets of the English Language (Viking Press, 1950)
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Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803–1882
POET’S REGION U.S., New England
Subjects Arts & Sciences, History & Politics, Philosophy, Social Commentaries
Poetic Terms Aphorism
Biography
No one has a better claim than Ralph Waldo Emerson to being the central figure in the whole history of American literature. All artists distill influences from the past to become, themselves, influences on the future, but in Emerson's case the affiliations reach farther back and farther forward and more generally and consequentially in both directions. He inherits, for example, the inwardness of his Puritan ancestors—their . . .
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SUBJECT Arts & Sciences, History & Politics, Philosophy, Social Commentaries
POET’S REGION U.S., New England
Poetic Terms Aphorism
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