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The American Renaissance; according to Merriam-Webster Dictionary

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The American Renaissance; according to Merriam-Webster Dictionary

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"The activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century,marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world."

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Influential People of the American Renaissance

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Influential People of the American Renaissance

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henry David Thoreau

Emily Dickinson

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Margaret Fuller

Bronson Alcott

Herman Melville

Walt Whitman

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What was blooming during the American Renaissance

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What was blooming during the American Renaissance

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Literature

Poetry

Painting

Sculpture

Architecture

Music

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"A philosophy which says that thought and spiritual things are more real than ordinary human experience and material things,"

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"Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members."

This maxim of Emerson's is saying that everyone in society believes they should stick together all while judging and belittling one another. I believe that once people fully realize that we need one another, instead of tearing each other down, our society would be at it’s best.

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"I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms..."

Thoreau believed in living in the most simplest form possible. I enjoy this part of him because by doing so you; become closer to nature, God, and yourself.