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Transcendentalism New England Transcendentalism A period of the great flowering of American literature, from the 1830s roughly until the end of the American Civil War came of age as an expression of a national spirit. One of the most important influences in the period was that of the Transcendentalists, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau. contributed to the founding of a new national culture based on native elements. In 1836, Nature was published, which made a tremendous impact on the intellectual life of America. It pushed American Romanticism into a new phase, the phas