ideas of the transcendentalists were Henry David Thoreau, as shown in his work Walden, and
Ralph Waldo Emerson, as shown is his work of his essays.
Thoreau, being one of the more well know transcendentalist, reflected transcendentalist
ideas in his literature. He went out into the woods to go into solitude and try and actually live
that aspect of the transcendental idea. Thoreau wanted to know what it actually meant to be a
transcendentalist, he said, “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,”(Thoreau
255). He…
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