Rousseau's writings had an indirect influence on American literature through the writings of Wordsworth and Kant, whose works were important to the New England Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson, as well as on such Unitarians as theologian William Ellery Channing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson ( May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882 ) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

Influenced by Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Transcendentalist movement, itself an offshoot of Romanticism, Whitman's poetry praises nature and the individual human's role in it.

* Ralph Waldo Emerson-The Transcendentalist

Self-Reliance is an essay written by American Transcendentalist philosopher and essayist, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Freneau's nature poem, " The Wild Honey Suckle " ( 1786 ), is considered an early seed to the later Transcendentalist movement taken up by William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau.

In the eighth chapter, " The Depths Of The Divine ", Wilber uses the accounts of four mystics to describe the possibilities for further individual spiritual development: the Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson on nature mysticism, the Christian saint Teresa of Avila on deity mysticism, Meister Eckhart on formless mysticism, and the Hindu guru Ramana Maharshi on nondual mysticism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson's The Transcendentalist is one of the essays he wrote while establishing the doctrine of American Transcendentalism.

* The Transcendentalist, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, A Lecture read at the Masonic Temple, Boston, January, 1842.

In his 1842 lecture " The Transcendentalist ", Emerson suggested that the goal of a purely transcendental outlook on life was impossible to attain in practice:

These churches share a spiritual, metaphysical and mystical predisposition and understanding of the Bible and were strongly influenced by the Transcendentalist movement — particularly the work of Emerson.

Emerson uses Transcendentalist and Romantic views to get his points across by explaining a true American scholar's relationship to nature.

He was actively subverting the government, but Emerson admitted that there was no perfect Transcendentalist.

Emerson created a perfect, ideal archetype for the Transcendentalist, but also realized that it would be adapted to fit imperfect humans in an imperfect world.

This path was taken by some Transcendentalist educators, such as Amos Bronson Alcott.

Commager's first monograph was the 1936 biography, Theodore Parker: Yankee Crusader, a life of the Unitarian minister, Transcendentalist, reformer, and abolitionist Theodore Parker ; it was reissued in 1960, along with a volume edited by Commager collecting the best of Parker's voluminous writings.

" Müller remained profoundly influenced by the Kantian Transcendentalist model of spirituality, and was opposed to Darwinian ideas of human development, arguing that " language forms an impassable barrier between man and beast.

* The Transcendentalist Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. a site maintained by Jone Johnson Lewis

Teufelsdröckh's Transcendentalist musings are mulled over by a skeptical English editor who also provides fragmentary biographical material on the philosopher.

For the Transcendentalist poet, see William Ellery Channing ( poet ).

* Literature — founding of the Transcendentalist movement, which stressed high thinking and a spiritual connection to all things ( see pantheism ).

I took a deep breath and an even deeper swallow of my drink, and said, `` I admit that going back to Ralph Waldo Emerson for humor is like going to a modern musical comedy for music and comedy ''.

Yet, even after all these stratagems, the conscience of Christian liberality is still not laid to rest, any more than is the conscience of Harvard University for having done the abject penance for its rejection of Ralph Waldo Emerson's The Divinity School Address of naming its hall of philosophy after him.

In the mid-19th century important leaders included Transcendentalists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1803 – 1882 ) and Henry David Thoreau ( 1817 – 1862 ).

Alcott became friends with Ralph Waldo Emerson and became a major figure in transcendentalism.

Beginning in 1836, Alcott's membership in the Transcendental Club put him in such company as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Orestes Brownson and Theodore Parker.

In April 1882, Alcott's friend and benefactor Ralph Waldo Emerson was sick and bedridden.

* Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher and Seer: An Estimate of His Character and Genius in Prose and Verse ( 1882 )

* 1882 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist ( b. 1803 )

Other philosophical foundations were established by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thomas Jefferson.

For example, Ralph Waldo Emerson ’ s contempt for Jane Austen's works often extended to the author herself, with Emerson describing her as “ without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world .” In turn, Emerson himself was called a “ hoary-headed toothless baboon ” by Thomas Carlyle.

Other writers admired by Orwell included: Ralph Waldo Emerson, G. K. Chesterton, George Gissing, Graham Greene, Herman Melville, Henry Miller, Tobias Smollett, Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad and Yevgeny Zamyatin.

The people whom the young woman met at the Brays ' house included Robert Owen, Herbert Spencer, Harriet Martineau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

He could quote Plato, Pope, Ralph Waldo Emerson and over a thousand lines of Shakespeare.

" Ralph Waldo Emerson famously declared ", " Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist "— a point of view developed at length in both the life and work of ( Henry David ) Thoreau.

* 1838 – Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God.

Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May Alcott and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau.

The family moved to Boston in 1838, where Alcott's father established an experimental school and joined the Transcendental Club with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.

* Nature, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Punch enjoyed an audience including: Elizabeth Barrett, Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Edward FitzGerald, Charlotte Brontë, Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and James Russell Lowell.

For a time during the 19th century pantheism was the theological viewpoint of many leading writers and philosophers, attracting figures such as William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge in Britain ; Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in Germany ; Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau in the USA.

" Other examples of determinism-inclined pantheisms include those of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

This conception of God influenced New England transcendentalists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Panentheism was a major force in the Unitarian church for a long time, based on Ralph Waldo Emerson's concept of the Oversoul.