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-Leading voice
-Wrote "Self-reliance" and "The American Scholar"
-individuals needed to reconnect with nature
-Argued people were trapped by preexisting customs and institutions
-"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Significance: Emerson's fixation with "remaking oneself" served to encourage nationalism and the establishment of a new literary culture in U.S, separate from that of Europe.

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-Poetry collection
-Written by Walt Whitman, inspired by Emerson
-Transcended boundaries between topics like solitude and community, prose and poetry and etc

Significance: Democracy took form of the character in the book and developed ideas of transcendentalist. It helped visualize the philosophy of life and humanity.

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-found inspiration in the natural world
-Isolated himself in Walden Pond in Concord
-Published Walden, or Life in the Woods; focused on thinking outside of social norms
- Focused on the formation of individualization and avoidance of social conforms
- "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drum."

Significance: He inspired the passionate younger generation to seek self-realization for men, a main supported of the American Transcendentalism movement. His contributed to modern ecology and environmentalism with his pieces on natural history.

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-New England (1836)
-Influenced by Romanticism
-Challenged traditional views of government and religion

Significance: Transcendentalism reconstituted the principle of free speech and thus prompted individuals to separate from strict government policies. As a result, it influenced independence movements, including the abolishment of slavery.