Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental...
Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.
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Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.