Date of Award

7-1970

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

English

First Advisor

Joseph M. Defalco

Abstract

In 1837 Ralph Waldo Emerson announced, "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close... We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe." In 1844, again trying to sever the strings of European influence, he drew a portrait of the ideal poet who would express the times and people of America; but, in the end, he concluded, "I look in vain for the poet whom I describe."

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