Don't worry. I'm just taking a day off. We will have class this week and assignment link for the week have bee posted. I'll also double up student office hours on Wednesday from 10:00-2:00 to make up for missing today.
This week's reading should be demanding. You are reading Emerson's essays, "The American Scholar" and "Self-Reliance." You'll also be learning about Transcendentalism, an insightful philosophical and artistic movement founded, in part, by Emerson, and I have you watching a claymation version of Plato's "Allegory of the Cave." This last should help you understand the role of the poet/philosopher in society and the relationship between Platonic Idealism and Mysticism and American Romanticism.
Enjoy, and--as always--ask questions. Just don't expect any answers from me on Monday 20 Sept. I'm going to try and get rested back up from the travel and my nieces wedding.
Steve
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