In His 1837 Address "The American Scholar," Ralph Waldo Emerson

In his 1837 address "The American Scholar," Ralph Waldo Emerson argued that Americans needed to

A) improve their literature by emulating European forms.
B) trust themselves rather than rely on Europeans for their sense of culture.
C) create literature that conformed to universal standards of beauty and taste.
D) reform their education system.
E) to turn away from scholarship and concentrate on farming.