American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman

Ahab Ahab’s allegory American analogy artist beauty become believed Billy Billy Budd Browne’s called century chapter character Coleridge Coleridge’s conception consciousness contemporary contrast criticism death declared democratic divine Eliot Emerson England essay Ethan Brand evil experience expression eyes fact feeling felt final Greenough Haunted Mind Hawthorne Hawthorne’s heart Henry Henry James human ideal imagination Israel Potter James kind knew language Leaves of Grass less literature living man’s Marble Faun Mardi means Melville Melville’s merely mind Moby-Dick moral nature never observed passage phrase Pierre poem poet poet’s poetry possessed prose remark rhetoric rhythm romance Scarlet Letter scene seems sense sentence Seven Gables Shakespeare sketch soul spirit Starbuck strain style suggested symbol theme things Thoreau thought tragedy tragic transcendental transcendentalists truth Twice-Told Tales verse Walden wanted whale Whitman whole words writing wrote