Ralph Waldo Emerson An American Transcendentalist.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson An American Transcendentalist

Background American essayist and poet ( ) Born in Massachusetts from a long line of ministers Father was a Unitarian minister

Major Works Include: “Self-Reliance” “The Over-Soul” “Love” “Friendship” Fate Nature

Emerson is a key part of the American Transcendentalist Movement, which also included: William Cullen Bryant Margaret Fuller Henry David Thoreau Walt Whitman

Major Influences to Transcendentalism: Reacting against Deism (belief in a rational universe, like a clock) Reacting against empirical/rationalist thought Influenced positively by British Romanticists like William Wordsworth, Samuel T. Coleridge, Lord Byron, and Percy Shelley Influenced by Hindu and Buddhist thought

Definition and Major Beliefs of Transcendentalism

Celebration of individualism

Beauty and power of Nature

Over-soul: connection of all things

Intuition over reason

Social reform especially anti-slavery and for women’s rights

Meditation, not prayer

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