tRANSCENDENTALISM ft Ralph waldo emerson (lauren polo)

Transcendetalism is an American literary,political,religious, and philosophical movement of the 19th century. The transcendentalists believed that a new era was at hand, that society and its institutions corrupted the purity of an individual.They empathized in the intuition as a mean to knowledge and the importance of the search of the divine.

Ralph waldo emerson

1. Was born in Boston, Massachusetts  on May 25,1803.
2. Died in Massachusetts on April 27, 1882.
3. Emerson is also well known as a friend of David Thoreau.
4. He had memory problems when he was old.
5. He met Abraham Lincoln and agreed with the Emancipation Proclamation.
6. His older son, Waldo, died in January 1842 from scarlet fever.
7. He was poor when he studied at Harvard.