A Critical analysis on the Contribution of Emerson and Thoreau to the American Transcendentalism
The idea of transcendentalism which is important to know, firstly it is a human sense can know only physical reality. Basically, the fundamental truths of being and the universe lie outside the reach of the sense and it can be grasped only through intuition. So, it’s focus on the human spirit. It’s interested in the natural world and it’s relationship to humanity. It is a believe that if people explored nature thoroughly, they would come to know themselves and the universal truths better. All forms of being God, nature and humanity are spiritually united through a shared universal soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau are two greatest follower of this theory. In this paper the matter
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While his writing style can be seen in his own time. Emerson’s essays remain among the requirements of American thinking and his work has greatly influenced the thinkers, writers and poets that have followed him.Emerson was a Harvard-educated essayist and lecturer and is recognized as our first truly "American" thinker. In his most famous essay, "The American Scholar," he urged Americans to stop looking to Europe for inspiration and imitation and be themselves. He believed that people were naturally good and that everyone's potential was limitless. He inspired his colleagues to look into themselves, into nature, into art, and through work for answers to life's most perplexing questions. His intellectual contributions to the philosophy of transcendentalism inspired a uniquely American idealism and spirit of reform. According to