Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson

INTUITIVE SAGE INTUITIVE SAGE POETPOET

EmersonEmerson Transcendentalist Transcendentalist

manifesto- manifesto- Nature Nature (1836)(1836) There is Correspondence There is Correspondence

between human soul and between human soul and everything that exist in everything that exist in the world.the world.

Man contains all within Man contains all within himself.himself.

EmersonEmerson Journal- struggle with Journal- struggle with philosophical ideas “in philosophical ideas “in order to achieve order to achieve personal and artistic personal and artistic integration in an age integration in an age destitute of faith, but destitute of faith, but terrified at scepticism.”terrified at scepticism.”

EmersonEmerson Individualism and belief in Individualism and belief in

the primacy of the primacy of personality- admired hero, personality- admired hero, genius, great man.genius, great man.

Seeking integration with Seeking integration with nature.nature.

Critical of emergent Critical of emergent American commercialismAmerican commercialism