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From: Philip Freneau and the Cosmic Enigma[(essay date 1949) In the following excerpt, Adkins explores the formation of Freneau's complex religious philosophy from his abandonment of the orthodoxy of his parents to his turn toward nature and deism.] II...
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From: Schelling Now: Contemporary Readings[(essay date 2005) In the following essay, Wirth explains Schelling’s views of nature and the nature of animals and how it is similar to and different from human nature. ] The one who knows walks among humans as among...
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From: Early American Poetry: Selections from Bradstreet, Taylor, Dwight, Freneau, and Bryant[(essay date 1978) In the following excerpt, Eberwein discusses Freneau's life and career, suggesting that his various activities as editor, farmer, and sea captain influenced his writing in various ways.] Born the...
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From: Schelling: Zwischen Fichte und Hegel/Between Fichte and Hegel[(essay date 2000) In the following essay, Snow explains Schelling’s view of freedom, first by discussing Of Human Freedom (1809), “which serves both as an epitaph for the pretensions of the Enlightenment view of reason...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay Nature, appearing in 1836 as a little booklet, is a landmark in American thought and literature. It is the archetypal statement of transcendentalism, one of the more extreme forms which...
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From: The Athenaeum[In the following excerpt from a review of Nature and Human Nature, the critic asserts that Haliburton's talent remains strong.] How far either Yankee or Nova-Scotian nature—how far that wider humanity which is the...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)``Ode to the West Wind,'' written by Percy Bysshe Shelley near Florence in 1819, was published with Prometheus Unbound in 1820. As one of the most frequently anthologised poems in English, it is one of a dozen lyric...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersThe works of Jack London, author of some twenty novels and novellas and over one hundred short stories, are marked by an enormous amount of preparation; he once asserted that he suffered a "lack of origination" and had...
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From: MELUSHistorians such as William Cronon (Changes in the Land, 1983) and Wilbur R. Jacobs (“Indians as Ecologists,” 1980); ecologists such as Stewart L. Udall (The Quiet Crisis, 1963); and religion scholars such as Christopher...
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From: Canadian Poetry[(essay date spring-summer 1990) In the following second part of a two-part essay on the significance of Lampman's sequencing of the poems in Lyrics of Earth, Ball illustrates how the poet's view of nature informed the...
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From: The Haliburton Bi-Centenary Chaplet: Papers Presented at the 1996 Thomas Raddall Symposium[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Clarke proposes that the writings of Haliburton and the Marquis de Sade have been consigned to obscurity due to their similar offensive views on reform--that liberalism is a...
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From: Canadian Writers and Their Works: Essays on Form, Context, and Development: Fiction Series[(essay date 1989) In the following excerpt, McMullin maintains that even though Haliburton's popularity waned and he was alternately labeled a British or an American writer, his Tory philosophy was primarily linked to...
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From: Centennial Review[(essay date spring 1988) In the following essay, Jensen notes the ways in which Nemerov owes a debt to Shakespeare in his themes, allusions, and use of language.] John Lehmann, writing in his autobiography, claimed...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Ralph Waldo Emerson was the most distinguished of the New England Transcendentalists and one of the most brilliant American poets and thinkers of the 19th century. Although Transcendentalism as a mode of Romantic thought...
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From: Extrapolation[In the following essay, Hovanec argues that the main characters in Le Guin's novella The Word for World Is Forest evince the prevailing American attitudes toward the environment.] In a chapter entitled “Nature:...
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From: The Southern ReviewOn the basis of his recent work, I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that Warren is the best that we now have, the dean of living American poets, occupying the place left vacant at It may be that Warren's...
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From: The Plays of Elizabeth Inchbald[In the following essay, Backscheider provides a historical account of Inchbald's career as a playwright and novelist.] Elizabeth Inchbald was a strange combination of consuming ambition and personal charm. In spite of...
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From: The Atlantic Monthly[In the following excerpt from his survey of Haliburton's works, Crofton outlines the elements of humor through which Haliburton attempted to highlight the faults of his countrymen. The critic attributes Haliburton's...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Joseph Warton's poem The Enthusiast, published when he was only 22, celebrates in Miltonic blank verse the new preference for the irregularities of nature over rigid classical forms. While still at school Warton had been...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)``To a Skylark'' is a lyric of 21 stanzas, each composed of four lines in trochaic trimeter followed by an alexandrine, each rhyming ababb. The poem expresses two of Percy Bysshe Shelley's most deeply held beliefs about...