What is Transcendentalism?

* A philosophy that asserts the primacy of the spiritual and transcendental over the material and empirical.* 

Who are the Transcendentalists?

* The main authors of this movement are Emerson and Thoreau* 

Emerson's Works

Self-Reliance

Nature

Thoreau's Works

Civil Disobedience

Walden

Compare Thoreau with Modern Texts

Ghandi

MLK

Review for Test

8-9 Questions

1- Poe (alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhyme, repetition)

1- Hawthorne- Minister's Black Veil

1- Frederick Douglass

1- Holmes, Longfellow, Lowell

2- Thoreau- Civil Disobedience (With connections to modern texts)

2- Emerson- Nature and Self Reliance

1- Transcendentalism and connection with modern life