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  Refers to a set of loosely connected attitudes toward nature and mankind, rather than a specific theme of romantic love.  Romanticism values intuition over reason

 The celebration of self  Exaltation in the natural landscape  Scrutiny of the artist’s own personality and imagination.

 Belief that National Literature didn’t need to follow England  EXPLOSION of American Literature – Poets, Essayists, Novelists, Short stories etc.  Comes from a quest for self-improvement  Utopian Projects began – Transcendentalists value idealism

 Developed out of the Romantic movement  Let’s define it:  Root: scandere – “to climb”  Prefix: trans- “over”  To transcend is to climb over or go beyond

 To go beyond the limits of the senses and of everyday experiences by depending on intuition rather than reason or logic.  So what happens then?  We discover higher truths and insights.

 Free thought/following your intuition  Non-conformity/Individualism  Confidence  Self-Reliance  Importance of Nature

 Everything in the world is a reflection of the Divine Soul.  The physical facts of the natural world are a doorway to the spiritual or ideal world  People can use their own intuition to behold God’s spirit revealed in nature or in their own souls

 Self-reliance and individualism must outweigh external authority and blind conformity to custom and tradition.  Spontaneous feelings and intuition are superior to deliberate intellectualism and rationality.

 Born in Boston, attended Harvard and later became a minister  Settled in Concord, Mass and established ‘The Transcendentalist Club”

 Published “Nature” and “Self-Reliance” – favored radical individualism and insistence on self-reliance  Believed in pantheism – God is in all things, can be found in nature – all part of the Divine Soul, the source of all good. “Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact”

 Born in Concord, MA, studied at Harvard and was a student of Emerson’s  Rejected conformity – refused to wear a black coat; quit teaching when required to beat students. Best. Neck Beard, EVER !

 1845 – Changed his life. Went to the woods for 2 years and 2 months and kept a journal.  Walden or Life in the Woods is a product of that experience.  Got down to the essentials of life; one with nature  Faced non-conformity  Realized the non-importance of material possessions.