05- Transcendentalism.pptVIP

Lecture 5 Lecture 5 American Transcendentalism New England Transcendentalism 1. It is the summit of Am. Romanticism. 2. Leaders: Emerson and Thoreau 3. Manifesto: Nature written by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1836, which is regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism. 4. Club: Transcendentalist Club 5. Journal: The Dial Significance: 1. Exhorting young people to cast off their deadening enslavement to the past, to follow God within, and to live every moment of life with strenuousness, to regard nature as the great objective lesson proving God’s presence everywhere in His