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- Transcendentalism affected Edgar Allan Poe ’s literature because he abhorred it. Poe’s writing, considered part of the American Romantic period, was Dark Romantic. He wrote of evil and macabre subjects that included suffering and death, while the Transcendentalists wrote of spirituality and communing with the natural world.
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Dec 1, 2023 · Hawthorne, along with Poe and Melville, made up a group of American writers known as The Dark Romantics who wrote during the same time as Emerson and Thoreau, the two primary Transcendentalist...
If the misreadings of Poe on transcendentalism are symptomatic, as they seem to be, then isn't it high time to clarify our se-mantics and our thinking about Poe's basic outlook on life and art?
As the article explores, Poe's objections to Transcendentalism included what he considered its naïve reformism and its aesthetic inadequacy. Though Poe was keenly interested in the Transcendent, he was of an opinion that “Frogpondian” or “Bostonian” Transcendence could be problematic.
The transcendentalist literary movement was not likely to have influenced Poe's work. His work bears little resemblance to the writing of transcendentalists like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry...
Sep 13, 2013 · Although Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville were drawn to some aspects of American Transcendentalism, their fiction subverts three key Transcendentalist concepts: the veneration of nature, self-reliant individualism, and utopian social reform.
- Ted Billy
- 2013
Poe's utter dislike of Transcendentalism was no secret (he once took a swipe at Nathaniel Hawthorne, who he otherwise respected, simply for living in Concord, Massachusetts — the seat of the movement), and his particular disgust with Emerson was equally well-known.
Poe, for example, has been viewed by more than one astute critic as adopting the Transcendentalist position particularly in his Eureka, where he bridges the gap between truth and poetry (beauty...
