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Notes for a Comparison between American and European Romanticism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2009

Tony Tanner
Tony Tanner
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King's College, Cambridge
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This is a version of a paper read to the conference of the European Association for American Studies at Rome in September 1967. The subject, which was prescribed by the organizers, is clearly too vast to admit of definitive treatment in this space, and the essay should accordingly be regarded as no more than a tentative exploration of the topic in order to stimulate discussion. As my method relies extensively on allusions and short quotations it seemed undesirable to over-burden this printed version with footnotes locating precisely the source of every such reference. I have instead indicated in the text wherever possible the title of the work cited, and it may be helpful to add here that the essays of Emerson on which I have mainly drawn are these: ‘Nature’ (1836), ‘The Transcendentalist’ (1843), and ‘The Poet’ (1844).

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Research Article
Information
Journal of American Studies , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , April 1968 , pp. 83 - 103
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1968

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page 83 note 1 As quoted and translated by Heller, Erich in The Artist's Journey into the Interior (London, 1966), p. 153Google Scholar.

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