American Renaissance

Japanese: アメリカ・ルネサンス - あめりかるねさんす
American Renaissance

...WC Bryant praised nature and became the "father of American poetry."
[American Renaissance (mid-19th century)]
In the early 19th century in America, Unitarianism, which emphasizes the innate goodness of human beings, arose, and Emerson, known as a Transcendentalist, emerged from this ideology, fusing mysticism with the ideas of the developing democratic period. He left the church, which had fallen into formality, and sought a primordial and mystical relationship between humans and the universe, believing that nature is a symbol of the spiritual world and that words are a symbol of nature.

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "American Renaissance" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…W.C.ブライアントは大自然をたたえ,〈アメリカ詩の父〉となった。
[アメリカ・ルネサンス(19世紀中葉)]
 19世紀初頭のアメリカには,人間が生まれながらに有する善性を強調するユニテリアニズムが興ったが,そこから出発し,神秘主義とデモクラシー発展期の思潮とを融合させたところから,超越主義者(トランセンデンタリズム)と言われるエマソンが現れた。彼は形式に堕した教会を離れ,人間と宇宙の始源的・神秘的関係をもとめ,自然は霊界の象徴であり,言葉は自然の象徴であるとした。…

※「アメリカ・ルネサンス」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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