【美国人物志】拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生(1/12)

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拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生，美国思想家，诗人。1836年出版处女作《论自然》。他文学上的贡献主要在散文和诗歌上。
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The United States
Ralph Waldo Emerson
the American Revolution
文中有两处破折号~~敬请注意啊The United States had won its independence from Britain just 21 years before Ralph Waldo Emerson was born. But it had yet to win its cultural independence. It still took its traditions from other countries, mostly from western Europe. What the American Revolution did for the nation's politics, Emerson did for its culture. When he began writing and speaking in the 1830s, conservatives saw him as radical -- wild and dangerous. But to the young, he spoke words of self-dependence -- a new language of freedom. He was the first to bring them a truly American spirit. He told America to demand its own laws and churches and works. It is through his own works that we shall look at Ralph Waldo Emerson.