LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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He was a writer against the government
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He led the transcendentalist movement
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He stressed the importance of community
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He encouraged unquestioning obedience to the government
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
Detailed explanation-2: -Transcendentalism is an American literary, philosophical, religious, and political movement of the early nineteenth century, centered around Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Detailed explanation-3: -Waldo Emerson is truly the center of the American transcendental movement, setting out most of its ideas and values in a little book, Nature, published in 1836, that represented at least ten years of intense study in philosophy, religion, and literature, and in his First Series of essays.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ralph Waldo Emerson was a writer, thinker and philosopher who became the leading proponent of Transcendentalism, a movement that imbued the austere New England Unitarian tradition with elements of mysticism. In 1803, Emerson was born into a Unitarian family in Boston.
Detailed explanation-5: -Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were two of the most famous and influential transcendentalists.