Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry
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Whitman works with and against temperance discourse. Whether or not he shared the views oftemperance reformers, he clearly knew the rhetoric and shared an interest in thinking about theintoxicated and temperate bodies. He wrote temperance tracts during the 1840s, and when heturned to poetry in the 1850s, temperance (and intemperance) emerged as important motifs of hispoetry. This site provides contextual materials that will enable users to think in more complexways about Whitman and temperance. The site provides a broad sampling of major temperancewritings and images of the period, provides examples of Whitman's own writings on temperance,and points to moments in Whitman's mature poetry that can be illuminated with respect to thecultural debate on temperance. The site also provides key critical statements on Whitman andtemperance, a bibliography, and suggested teaching approaches. Users of the largerWhitman/Dickinson teaching site, The Classroom Electric: Dickinson, Whitman, and AmericanCulture, will find that this section complements other sites on Whitman and the body. ThisWhitman and Temperance site also offers a useful framework for thinking about temperance inthe poetry of Emily Dickinson, and provides some examples of her poems on drinking, "taverns,"and intoxication.
Much of his major poetry and critical writings Emerson published in the 1840s. He disliked Edgar Allan Poe,who was some half a dozen years his junior. In a literary conversationhe referred to Poe as "the jingle man" and found his moral principlesunacceptable. Opposing Poe's romantic conception of naturehe thought that moral and religious truths hidden in nature canbe reached through intuition and conscience, not by escaping into theshadows of unreality. 781b155fdc