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work_ig37qdpt25bifejd3kua3byh4u	Russell C. Powell	John Muir and the Botanical Oversoul	2019.0	13	.pdf	application/pdf	9425	663	67	Abstract: The relation of influence between Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Muir helps to illuminate I argue, in both Emerson and Muir's writing on their mystical affinities for plant life. Harold Bloom's renowned theory of literary influence, I draw lessons from Emerson and Muir's mystical writings to highlight the ways in which Muir acquired from Emerson the plant-related Keywords: John Muir; Ralph Waldo Emerson; plants; mysticism; Harold Bloom; literary influence; by Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose Nature first illuminated the mystical potential inhering in humans' To read Muir 's mystical writings on plants is thus to see Emerson both reflected and outpaced in Muir 's Muir's mystically-inflected concept of human-plant relations, then, not only helps define the nature of Despite the similarities in Muir and Emerson's writings on mystical experience and plants' role in Time and again Muir hems close to Emerson in his accounts of mystical experience.	./cache/work_ig37qdpt25bifejd3kua3byh4u.pdf	./txt/work_ig37qdpt25bifejd3kua3byh4u.txt