ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Transcendentalists valued individualism and self-reliance Henry David Thoreau and Margaret Fuller were among the principals of the movement. The Transcendentalists believed there is a divine spirit in nature and in every living soul. Through individualism and self-reliance human beings could reunite with God.

Detailed explanation-2: -Intuition allowed the transcendentalist to disregard external authority and to rely, instead, on direct experience. In his essay “The Transcendentalist, ” Emerson explains that transcendentalism is “Idealism as it appears in 1842.” He links it with “the very oldest thoughts” such as Buddhism.

Detailed explanation-3: -The transcendentalist movement encompassed many beliefs, but these all fit into their three main values of individualism, idealism, and the divinity of nature.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Transcendentalists revered nature in a divine sense. Nature was not subordinate to them, but instead nature was the other part of a symbiotic relationship. This analogy is the creed of the transcendental view of nature and of man as individual.