Letters and Social Aims

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The discussion of Persian poetry credits Baron von Hammer Purgstall with translating the Divan of Hafiz and specimens of two hundred poets into German. The assessment of Hafiz treats every song as evidence that the subject is unimportant to success, provided the treatment is cordial. The discussion says the dedications and panegyrics addressed to grandees in the Divan would not be skipped, since the poet's muse seldom supports him better.

The quoted story recounts Merlin's disappearance from King Arthur's court and the searches undertaken by many knights because Merlin was seriously missed. Sir Gawain reaches the forest of Broceliande while lamenting, hears someone groaning and sees only a kind of smoke through which he cannot pass.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and critical thinking, as well as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and conformity.