Emerson
Today we are going to talk about a writer. Not a normal, average one however, but the one who managed to disconnect America from the literary influence of "the courtly muses of Europe" and give it a new direction. His works established a new conflict between major trends and ideas and his speech to Phi Beta Kappa Society at the First Parish in Cambridge was declared as "the intellectual declaration of independence" by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Emerson perceived the organised religion and European conservatism as a poison to human's development. In Nature, one of his major work, he declared that the nature is in us and it is a part of us and suggested return to nature and finding unity with it.
“In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, -- he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me”
His worldview was so radical that he even found Wordsworth and Coleridge conservative and dry (in spite of their romanticist ideas).
The popularity of the writer continues today and his ideas are propagated by bloggers and... even marketers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hslN0C8GGaA
Yes and I am a blogger, but I must point out that I'm not the author of these two memes. ;)
I'm posting also two other links, which you might find interesting:
http://www.rwe.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOkdFMw0pmk
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