USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Among Transcendentalism’s followers were writers Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Walt Whitman; educator Bronson Alcott; and social theorists and reformers Theodore Parker and William Ellery Channing.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Margaret Fuller (1810–1850), one of the most important American feminists of her day, was a philosopher, journalist, and literary critic. She belonged to the New England intellectual community called the transcendentalists, who also included Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.

Detailed explanation-4: -Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American from New England who was an author, poet, and natural philosopher. Thoreau was a leading figure in the Transcendentalist movement which held, as one of its premises, that the human connection with nature is necessary for intellectual and moral stability.

Detailed explanation-5: -Emily Dickinson was a romantic, transcendentalist poet in the nineteenth century in the United States. Emily Dickinson’s biography displays the influences and forces that affected her writing.