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Ralph Waldo Emerson and Transcendentalism What is Transcendentalism? Transcendentalism was a literary movement that flourished during the middle 19th Century (1836 – 1860). It began as a rebellion against traditionally held beliefs by the English Church that God superseded the individual. As the philosophical leader of Transcendentalism ，Ralph Waldo Emerson was credited for developing it into a free，democratic and independent national culture and exerted great influence upon the Americans from generation to generation．His idea has become an indispensable part of Western culture . Beliefs of T