Comprehensive, easy-to-follow site on Transcendentalists includes guides to resources for Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, plus essays explaining Transcendentalism and information on others in the Transcendentalist circle.

By Leslie Perrin Wilson, M.S., M.A., Curator of Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library . This idea, roughly written in revolutions and national movements, in the mind of the philosopher had far more precision; the individual is the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Historic Notes of Life and Letters in New England Ralph Waldo Emerson (left) was the central and most influential figure ...

What is Transcendentalism A basic guide for the confused. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller and others of the American Romantic movement of the 19th century.

Transcendentalist Women (2): The Peabody sisters (Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, and Sophia Amelia Peabody Hawthorne), Harriet Martineau and Julia Ward Howe.

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide An Ongoing Online Project Paul P. Reuben Chapter 4: Early Nineteenth Century - American Transcendentalism (AT): A Brief Introduction Outside Links: | Famous Unitarian Universalists | Making of America | Page Links: The Assumed, Presumed, or the Self-Identified Transcendentalists | Basic Assumption and Premises | ...

Margaret Fuller and Mary Moody Emerson.

The emergence of the Transcendentalists as an identifiable movement took place during the late 1820s and 1830s, but the roots of their religious philosophy extended much farther back into American religious history. Transcendentalism and evangelical Protestantism followed separate evolutionary branches from American Puritanism, taking as their common ancestor the Calvinism of the seventeenth and ...

American Transcendentalism Excerpted from: Liquid Fire Within Me : Language, Self and Society in Transcendentalism and early Evangelicalism, 1820-1860, M.A. Thesis in English by Ian Frederick Finseth, 1995. Related Sites... The Transcendentalists - a guide to resources by Jone Johnson Lewis American Transcendentalism - an overview by Donna M. Campbell American Transcendentalism Web - Ann ...

Two definitions of Transcendentalism, one from Ralph Waldo Emerson and one from a dictionary, with links to several other defintions and a longer explanatory essay.