American Literature / Unit 7 AML 0604 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Emerson's *Nature*
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The idea
Emerson published Nature in eighteen thirty-six, arguing that the natural world is not raw material but a language, and that a person who looks at it directly rather than through other people's books can read it. The essay became the movement's founding statement.
In practice
Nature as a text to be read directly.
Where people slip
The complaint is against secondhand vision.
Your place on the trail
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