THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE & TRANSCENDENTALISM We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds...A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men. With this fiery challenge Ralph Waldo Emerson concluded his 1837 Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Address, THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR. As his ...

By Leslie Perrin Wilson, M.S., M.A., Curator of Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library . This idea, roughly written in revolutions and national movements, in the mind of the philosopher had far more precision; the individual is the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Historic Notes of Life and Letters in New England Ralph Waldo Emerson (left) was the central and most influential figure ...

The emergence of the Transcendentalists as an identifiable movement took place during the late 1820s and 1830s, but the roots of their religious philosophy extended much farther back into American religious history. Transcendentalism and evangelical Protestantism followed separate evolutionary branches from American Puritanism, taking as their common ancestor the Calvinism of the seventeenth and ...

American Transcendentalism Excerpted from: Liquid Fire Within Me : Language, Self and Society in Transcendentalism and early Evangelicalism, 1820-1860, M.A. Thesis in English by Ian Frederick Finseth, 1995. Related Sites... The Transcendentalists - a guide to resources by Jone Johnson Lewis American Transcendentalism - an overview by Donna M. Campbell American Transcendentalism Web - Ann ...