Transcendentalism Period

Transcendentalism is a very formal word that describes a very simple idea. People, men and women equally, have knowledge about themselves and the world around them that "transcends" or goes beyond what they can see, hear, taste, touch or feel. People who accept these ideas not as religious beliefs but as a way of understanding life relationships. The transcendental Club, which met in the Boston home of GEORGE RIPLEY. Their chief publication was a periodical called "The Dial," edited by Margaret Fuller, a political radical and feminist whose book "Women of the Nineteenth Century" was among the most famous of its time. 

A theory that “transcendent forms “ of truth exist beyond reason and experience ,every individual is capable of discovering this truth on his or her own, through intuition. A conviction that people are inherently good and should follow their own beliefs , however controversial they might be. A belief that humankind, nature and God are all interconnected.

  A belief that humankind, nature and God are all interconnected. A conviction that people are inherently good and should follow their own beliefs, however controversial they may be. A theory that “ transcendent forms” of truth exist beyond reason and experience. Every individual is capable of discovering higher truths on his or her own, through intuition.

Ralph waldo (1803 - 1882):   Nature (september 9 1836), Personal diary (1909), The American Scholar (1849). Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862): Aulus Persius Flaccus (1840), the service (1840), The Landlord (1843), Sir Walter Raleigh (1844). Ellen Hooper (1812 - 1848): The dial. Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850): Literature and Art (1852), Women in the nineteenth century (1855). Christopher pears (1813 - 1892): Poems (1844), The Last of the Hugger Muggers, A Giant Story (1855), Kobboltozo, A Sequel to the Last of the Hugger Muggers (1857).