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The Impact of Emersonian Transcendentalism on Kavimoni S. SWAMINATHAN Medical College, Madurai By his devout learning and keen intellect Kavimoni Desikavinayakam Pillai has composed poems worth reckoning with some of the high philosophical exponents of the western world. But the individuality of Pillai is not merely cracking the hardness of metaphysical ideas but pounding them to be mixed with glucose for easy and efficient administration to the children, the illiterate and the ones who have no depth of contemplation. That is why the mystic content of many of his poems is submerged in the sweetened words of simplicity and easy understanding. Though mainly praised for his poems meant for children a deeper study of his poems would reveal that his poems need closer scrutiny for bringing out the content which may be hard to digest if it is served plain on the table. A student of philosophy Kavimoni has shown much interest in the Indian philosophy and the allied ideas. American poets of the nineteenth century were attracted by the subtle nuances of the Indian literature embellished by the undercurrent of its philosophy. In that area of revolution wordsworth led a school of Romanticism in England. Carlyle brought about a thorough change in prose literature including religious 38.2