on the growing attention he received from the essay Nature, The American Scholar solidified Emerson's popularity and weight in America, a level of reverence he would hold throughout the rest of his life. Phi Beta Kappa's literary quarterly magazine, The American Scholar, was named after the speech. This success stands in contrast with the harsh reaction to another of his speeches, "Divinity School Address", given eleven months later. See also American culture Empiricism Great American Novel Humanism Romanticism Transcendentalism References Further reading Kenneth Sacks: Understanding Emerson: "The American Scholar" and His Struggle For Self-Reliance. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2003. 199 pages. John Hansen: “The New American Scholar.” The Pluralist 9.1 (2014): 97-103. External links The entire speech, verbatim. (copy #1) The entire speech, verbatim. (copy #2) Transcendentalism Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1837 essays 1837 speeches