LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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The Transcendental Bible
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A manner of meditation to help one connect with one’s intuition
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The tool naturalists used to tell the time according to the sun
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A literary journal for Transcendentalist thought
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Dial was an American magazine published intermittently from 1840 to 1929. In its first form, from 1840 to 1844, it served as the chief publication of the Transcendentalists. From the 1880s to 1919 it was revived as a political review and literary criticism magazine.
Detailed explanation-2: -…the Transcendentalists started a magazine, The Dial. Its inaugural issue, dated July 1840, carried Thoreau’s poem “Sympathy” and his essay on the Roman poet Aulus Persius Flaccus.
Detailed explanation-3: -Publication History The Dial was established in 1840 as a Transcendentalist magazine, edited by Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson. It published four volumes in this incarnation, ceasing in 1844.
Detailed explanation-4: -Transcendentalism was heavily focused on seeking individual truth and growing to become more and more self-reliant. However, the movement can be described using three essential characteristics or principles: individualism, idealism, and the divinity of nature.