Walt Whitman Whitman's poem, "Song of Myself," from "Leaves of Grass" is often considered the most stunningly original poem ever written by an American. Leaves of Grass was inspired largely by Emerson's writings, and in particular his essay "The Poet....
Walt Whitman was a follower of the two Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. He believed in Emerson and Thoreau's Transcendentalist beliefs. Whitman believed that individualism stems from listening to one's inner voice and that one's life is guided by one's intuition. Wh...
Transcendentalism blossomed during the 1800s with the help of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Emily Dickinson. They were transcendentalists who expressed their beliefs through writings from poems to essays and they believed that "the individual was at the center of the universe" (Prent...
Transcendentalism blossomed during the 1800s with the help of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau. Emily Dickinson was part of Realism-most people like Realism because of the way ideas were expressed. Emerson and Thoreau were Transcendentalists who expressed their beliefs through writings f...
