This 1837 Harvard Speech by Ralph Waldo Emerson Inspired a Generation of American Writers to Declare Their Independence From ‘the Courtly Muses of Europe:’ His address advocated for scholars of the young United States to be less “timid,” “imitative” and “tame”

This 1837 Harvard Speech by Ralph Waldo Emerson Inspired a Generation of American Writers to Declare Their Independence From ‘the Courtly Muses of Europe:’ His address advocated for scholars of the young United States to be less “timid,” “imitative” and “tame”

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