Romanticism Vs. Transendentalism Dialogue
Romanticism and Transcendentalism
James Li
The cold winter descended once again ever so slowly upon the revolutionizing world as the clock strikes eleven. On the eleventh of November, the lord's year 1842, three literary giants Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Cullen Bryant, and Edgar Allan Poe by coincidence or by fate, met in a small book store in Hartford Connecticut. Having previously made acquaintance of each other, they decide to sit down and discuss literary and philosophical ideals together. The topic of death naturally became the subject of the discussion as it weighed heavily upon both Poe and Emerson. Poe's alcoholism and pessimistic attitude has recently ascended to a new height as his beloved wife Virginia suffered and nearly died from tuberculosis earlier that year. During the same year, Emerson lost his first son Waldo to scarlet fever, and grief still plagues his soul.
Bryant: The topic of death should not be one to be avoided. Death is a natural part of......
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