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In 1839, he lit out not for the wilderness but for a different frontier: the ocean.

What ________________ experienced at sea, in ports, and on islands shaped his life and writing and made him claim that ” . . . a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

This Transcendentalist poet published the first biography of Thoreau.

For Emerson, the best thing a person could do was to

Which of the following writers would be considered a “light romantic.”

The history of Longfellow’s home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, also functioned as

Emerson, who was trained for the clergy, said that in order to be a good minister, he

Transcendentalism is typically dated as starting in 1836 with the publication of ______________________________ and gradually faded as an active movement at the approach of the American Civil War

Herman Melville once proclaimed, “The ________________ was my Yale College and my Harvard.

Hawthorne once noted that Emerson provided him his philosophy of life.