Transcendentalism
- Characteristics
- Appreciation for the beauty of nature
- Belief that people are inherently “good”
- Individualism
- Justifies the use of intuition when reasoning
- Criticizes war and government
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803-April 27,
1882)
- (1841) Self-Reliance
- Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817-May 6,
1862)
- (1840-1844) Away! Away! Away! Away!
- Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819-March 26, 1892)
- (1868) A Noiseless Patient Spider (1 Jan 1836 Jahr – 1 Jan 1860 Jahr)