Walt Whitman, Emerson’s Poet

Program Type:

Authors & Lectures

Age Group:

Adults
Registration for this event will close on April 4, 2025 @ 3:00pm.

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Event Details

For Ralph Waldo Emerson and the circle of radical thinkers and writers he inspired, only a new poetry for a new American nation could fulfill the true promise of Transcendentalism. When Walt Whitman arrived, he was quite different from what Emerson anticipated. Celebrate National Poetry Month by exploring with us how the Transcendentalists’ revolutionary ideas about nature, philosophy, religion, politics, and the individual inspired Whitman's radical breaks with convention, which shaped an unprecedented national literature and a new, enduring American self. 

Led by instructor Steven Phillips, this program is brought to us by the Lifetime Learners Institute based at Norwalk Community College. 

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

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