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Among the
Transcendentalist group themselves,there were signs that Emerson’s
plea for a literature of ‘Our own works’ was being answered.Emerson,Thoreau
and Very were important poet. Around them, in New England, were
others:John Greenleaf Whittier(1807—92),the author of powerful anti-slavery
and pastoral verse; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(1807-82), with his massive
transatlantic popularity;James Russell Lowell(1819-9l), versifier and satirist who followed Longfellow
in the Smith Chair of Modern Languages at Harvard;and Frederick Goddard Tuckerman(1821一73), a recently rediscovered New
England Nature poet (and recluse) who in a poem like ‘The Cricket' shows an
extraordinary understanding of the non-human world. In Oiver Wendell Holmes(1809—94),yet
another Harvard professor, but no admirer of Transcendentalism,New
England vaunted a witty belletrist (The
Autocrat at the Breakfast Table, l858,etc.). His medicated novels, as he called
them, include his minor lour de force, Elsie Venner (1861), which in tackling the decidedly modern subject of schizophrenia
attacked fundamental Calvinist assumptions about human behavior. A New Englander more palpably
responsive to Mission was Harriet Beecher Stowe(18ll-96), born 0f Calvinist stock in Connecticut,internationally
known for her Uncle Tom’s Cabin一(1851-52), a richer achievement
than its reputation usually admits, for it successfully blended purpose into
art in creating the most famous of all abolitionist works. But she also
deserves to be known for her other fiction,especially Dred:A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp(1856)and The Minister's
Wooing(1859).
TRANSCENDENTALIST INHERITORS:THOREAU AND WHITMAN
But of
the major writers who answered Emerson’s call to the creative-Transcendentalist
spirit,the nearest to hand was Henry
David Thoreau(1817-62), Transcendentalism's most practical disciple, and a spirit almost martial in his
emphatic individualism. When, after Harvard and a spe11 as handyman in Emerson’s
house and his editorial assistant on The
Dial, Thoreau moved to a hut at Walden P0nd,near Concord,on 4
July l845一truly his Independence Day—he
began a process which gave us,in
his classic diary—narrative,Walden(1854),a deep mid-century account of a life lived inwardly to its
existential limits. ‘I went to the woods', Thoreau explained,
because
I wished to live deliberately,to
front only the essential facts of life,and to see if I could not learn what it had to teach,and not,when I came to die,discover
that I had not lived.I
did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear;nor did I wish to practice resignation,
unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and to put to rout all
that was not life… to drive life into a corner and reduce it to its lowest
terms.
The
economy of Thoreau’s prose speaks perfectly for the economy of his purpose, the
need to corner life, and to arrest its overwhelming essence. That same fierce,
independent energy animates nearly all his writing, and certainly the
biographical pattern of his life. When he observes ‘I have travelled much in
Concord’, he is speaking of Transcendental ‘travel’, the kind of
‘home-cosmography’ he alludes to in Walden’s
concluding chapter. Few American writers pursued essence more tenaciously than
Thoreau (‘I love to come at my bearings’ he confides at one point), or wrote a
more engaging metaphoric idiom (his use of ‘economy’, ‘expense’, the ‘cost’ of
things). More than any contemporary, Thoreau held Nature in the regard Emerson
had described in ‘The Young American’:
The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our
culture. The continent we inhabit is to be physic and food for our mind, as
well as our body.
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Among the
Transcendentalist group themselves,there were signs that Emerson’s
plea for a literature of ‘Our own works’ was being answered.Emerson,Thoreau
and Very were important poet. Around them, in New England, were
others:John Greenleaf Whittier(1807—92),the author of powerful anti-slavery
and pastoral verse; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(1807-82), with his massive
transatlantic popularity;James Russell Lowell(1819-9l), versifier and satirist who followed Longfellow
in the Smith Chair of Modern Languages at Harvard;and Frederick Goddard Tuckerman(1821一73), a recently rediscovered New
England Nature poet (and recluse) who in a poem like ‘The Cricket' shows an
extraordinary understanding of the non-human world. In Oiver Wendell Holmes(1809—94),yet
another Harvard professor, but no admirer of Transcendentalism,New
England vaunted a witty belletrist (The
Autocrat at the Breakfast Table, l858,etc.). His medicated novels, as he called
them, include his minor lour de force, Elsie Venner (1861), which in tackling the decidedly modern subject of schizophrenia
attacked fundamental Calvinist assumptions about human behavior. A New Englander more palpably
responsive to Mission was Harriet Beecher Stowe(18ll-96), born 0f Calvinist stock in Connecticut,internationally
known for her Uncle Tom’s Cabin一(1851-52), a richer achievement
than its reputation usually admits, for it successfully blended purpose into
art in creating the most famous of all abolitionist works. But she also
deserves to be known for her other fiction,especially Dred:A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp(1856)and The Minister's
Wooing(1859).
TRANSCENDENTALIST INHERITORS:THOREAU AND WHITMAN
But of
the major writers who answered Emerson’s call to the creative-Transcendentalist
spirit,the nearest to hand was Henry
David Thoreau(1817-62), Transcendentalism's most practical disciple, and a spirit almost martial in his
emphatic individualism. When, after Harvard and a spe11 as handyman in Emerson’s
house and his editorial assistant on The
Dial, Thoreau moved to a hut at Walden P0nd,near Concord,on 4
July l845一truly his Independence Day—he
began a process which gave us,in
his classic diary—narrative,Walden(1854),a deep mid-century account of a life lived inwardly to its
existential limits. ‘I went to the woods', Thoreau explained,
because
I wished to live deliberately,to
front only the essential facts of life,and to see if I could not learn what it had to teach,and not,when I came to die,discover
that I had not lived.I
did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear;nor did I wish to practice resignation,
unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and to put to rout all
that was not life… to drive life into a corner and reduce it to its lowest
terms.
The
economy of Thoreau’s prose speaks perfectly for the economy of his purpose, the
need to corner life, and to arrest its overwhelming essence. That same fierce,
independent energy animates nearly all his writing, and certainly the
biographical pattern of his life. When he observes ‘I have travelled much in
Concord’, he is speaking of Transcendental ‘travel’, the kind of
‘home-cosmography’ he alludes to in Walden’s
concluding chapter. Few American writers pursued essence more tenaciously than
Thoreau (‘I love to come at my bearings’ he confides at one point), or wrote a
more engaging metaphoric idiom (his use of ‘economy’, ‘expense’, the ‘cost’ of
things). More than any contemporary, Thoreau held Nature in the regard Emerson
had described in ‘The Young American’:
The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our
culture. The continent we inhabit is to be physic and food for our mind, as
well as our body.