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Question

explain why the writings o two of the authors are romantic and transcendental.
-Ralph waldo emerson
-william cullen bryant

Answer 1

transcendental is the american version of romantic writers in europe.
A. Romanticism
1. intellectual movement that down played the rationality of the Enlightenment
2. Need to put emotion back into our beliefs and thoughts
3. Transcendentalism in U.S./Romanticism in Europe
a. mostly upper class from Boston area – writers, poets, lecturers – took fresh look at nature in America
3. Transcendentalism – through direct personal inspiration, depending on existential experience
a. protested against both Christian literalism and Enlightenment empiricism
b. scientific rationalism didn’t catch the complexity of nature – instead it made nature easier to consume
i. science devalued nature – transcendentalism absorbed humanity into nature’s larger organic whole – let science slide for the sake of personal communion with nature
c. look for the spirit in nature
d. industrial progress not good – preserve wilderness for noble savage and virtuous farmer – said unimproved nature was a good thing – not obsolete or useless
e. movement that anticipated modern environmentalism because it emphasized a holistic and organic world and a fundamental human need to remain in contact with nature
i. promoted biocentricism – humans part of moral universe that includes plants and animals – all nature is alive and whatever is alive has claim on our moral affections
f. raised questions about blind trust in science
g. Capitalism – narrow minded profiteering of capitalism
h. Christianity and western philosophy – separated humanity from nature
i. unresolved tension in Transcendentalism – was nature the final source of wisdom or an intermediate tool to a higher spiritual realm
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3. Emerson (1803-1882) – Boston intellectual, poor health, shunned his religion (Congregational-Unitarian) and educational (Harvard) background
a. found Romanticism on trip to Europe in 1832
b. wrote Nature in 1836 and The American Scholar in 1837 – became one of America’s most independent and influential thinkers
c. told Americans they were different from Europeans because of their intense connection with a unique and fresh natural world
d. said American wilderness–nature still in its harmonious totality–could be the source of a new humanity unique to America – human society was flawed and source of renewal was nature
e. nature is the seamless web of God, without beginning or end, the infinite mirror for an infinite humanity which goes far beyond capabilities of science
f. go to nature to renew oneself and to find God – harmony with nature was virtuous living
g. one of the publishers of the Transcendentalist magazine – Dial – 1840
Sorry I dont have any notes on bryant

Answer 2

I don't know about Bryant, but I know Emerson is an AMAZING transcendentalist writer. He displays the strong connection between man, God, and nature in the most beautiful way.
I hope that helps you in some way.