Walt Whitman's Influence On Transcendentalism

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n June 6, 1809 in Newburgh, NY and died on March 6, 1885 in Philadelphia, PA. His father was a miller, a person who owns or works in a grain mill, whose work had relocated him and his family to Baltimore, Maryland, where Arthur briefly attended local schools. At age fourteen, he left school after it proved to be poor on Athur due poor health. He grew up reading from the bible and hearing stories about his grandfather who fought in the revolutionary war. He took up apprenticeship with a Baltimore craftsman and read on the side but due to strained eyesight he ended up having to quit. T.S. Arthur had a lack of ability for physical labor that caused him to further seek out other work. He soon became even more attracted by literature and devoted …show more content…

It also used its political influence to press the government to enact alcohol laws to regulate the availability of alcohol or even its complete prohibition. Transcendentalism is a philosophical movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the eastern United States and it arose as a reaction to or protest against the general state of intellectualism and spirituality at the time. He was also influenced by Walt Whitman’s philosophical views and published works that shared some of the same values while Poe’s influence on his writing was more due to the negative side effects caused by alcohol only furthering his beliefs.Walt Whitman was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. His work was very controversial in its time , his work often being described as obscene for its overt …show more content…

The magazine was not as successful compared to other magazines being published at that time but “it represented an excellent example of the smaller women’s publications that were produced in the mid to late nineteenth century. It also illustrated how Arthur was able to translate a highly successful literary formula into an editing philosophy that appealed to middle-class nineteenth-century women.”
Timothy Shay Arthur’s story An Angel in Disguise was written in 1851. During this time period the United States was entering its prohibition era, Children Labor Laws were being established, and the passing of the Wilmot Provisio had failed. In this story I believe this story is about compassion and how it may not always be obvious in everyone at first. The story begins with a poor woman who was hated by nearly everyone in her village for her entire life dies while intoxicated and leaves 2 daughters and a son behind to fend for themselves. After she is found dead the towns people pitied her children, and the two oldest were taken in by new families, but the youngest Maggie, who was crippled, was left alone because nobody wanted to deal with her disability. But alas a man named Joe Thompson decides to take her in for the night but because he did not think his wife would approve of him bringing her home he later planned on taking her to the poor house the next morning. And he was

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