"Literature as a religious experience" ~William Blake
Ralph Waldo Emerson (Gabby)
- 'The American scholar' speech
- preacher- quit because of past traditions
- recognized by England
- poet, preacher, essayist
- 182 journals total
- critics of literacy and religious establishments
- New traditions
- transcendentalist thinker
William Blake (Carly)
- Frye based his outlook on him
- anagogic phase- 'literature as a religious experience'
- visionary 'a visionary creates and lives in a spiritual realm'
- meaning and form are the same thing
- 1000 different realities on one topic
- was unrecognized until after his death
- 'marriage of heaven and hell'
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