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What do you understand by the term
New England Renaissance'? Discuss
Emerson's contribution to the American Renaissance.​

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American Renaissance, also called New England Renaissance, period from the 1830s roughly until the end of the American Civil War in which American literature, in the wake of the Romantic movement, came of age as an expression of a national spirit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson contributed to American by influencing other writers; calling for a national literature; imbuing his writings with the ideal of spiritual harmony as opposed to the dominance of material gain. ... Emerson called for a New World Renaissance in literature to replace the past European Renaissance.

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