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Thoreau, Emerson, and Transcendentalism
CliffsNotes on Thoreau, Emerson, and Transcendentalism explores the religious, philosophical, and literary movement that captured the minds of New England intellectuals in the first half of the 19th century. This guide explains the various tenets of transcendentalism — above all was the importance of a direct relationship with God and with nature. You also see how that philosophy is reflected in works such as Henry David Thoreau's Walden and Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature.