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- Their objections ranged from verbal obscurity to emotional reserve; their strongest shared concern would have been Transcendentalism's insubstantial treatment of the darker side of humanity.
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Dec 1, 2023 · The two groups of writers had vastly different views of mankind's nature, and that is why many would classify Hawthorne and Poe as being opposed to Transcendentalism. For example, both...
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.
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Jan 1, 2012 · This article takes on Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville calling them the naysayers among the Transcendentalists. The article enunciates that they brilliantly insisted upon...
Edgar Allan Poe, a popular author, critic, and poet, decried “the so-called poetry of the so-called transcendentalists,” and felt that Transcendentalists were overrated, mediocre, and derivitave.
Nov 5, 2013 · Chapter 27 - Transcendentalism. from Part Four - Literary Contexts. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2013. By. Heidi Silcox. Edited by. Kevin J. Hayes. Chapter. Get access.
