ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -While Poe may have adopted a conciliatory attitude at times, he did not consider himself a Transcendentalist, nor was he sympathetic to the movement’s major views.

Detailed explanation-2: -Transcendentalists believe that society and its institutions-particularly organized religion and political parties-corrupt the purity of the individual. They have faith that people are at their best when truly self-reliant and independent. It is only from such real individuals that true community can form.

Detailed explanation-3: -He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States, and of American literature. He was one of the country’s earliest practitioners of the short story, and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as a significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction.

Detailed explanation-4: -Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson was the primary practitioner of the movement, which existed loosely in Massachusetts in the early 1800s before becoming an organized group in the 1830s.