Tag: Hermann Melville
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The Poetry of Democracy
Reading Time: 3 minutesHarold Kaplan said ‘humanist aspirations’ are the dominant American intellectual tradition. But an abstract notion of democratic humanism is only part of the story. Kaplan explains democratic humanism in the context of writers of the American classics: Emerson, Thoreau, Cooper, Poe, D. H. Lawrence, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Twain, and Henry James. They…
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American Classics and the Poetry of Democracy
Reading Time: 3 minutesHarold Kaplan said ‘humanist aspirations’ are the dominant American intellectual tradition. But an abstract notion of democratic humanism is only part of the story. Kaplan explains democratic humanism in the context of writers of the American classics: Emerson, Thoreau, Cooper, Poe, D. H. Lawrence, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Twain, and Henry James. They…