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American Transcendentalism Transcendentalism is a form of idealism that encompasses belief in intuitive knowledge, the indwelling of divinity in man and nature. The coming in of Spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age. ---Henry D. Thoreau American Transcendentalism 1. The first American intellectual movement to inspire a number of literary classics ( in Europe, it was a philosophy) 2. It stresses the unity of being---viewing God, man and nature as sharers in a universal soul-----Oversoul 3. It is a kind o