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American Arts
Term | Definition |
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transcendentalism | belief that people should rise above material things in life and that people should depend on themselves rather than outside authority |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | American writer most famous for his essay “Self-Reliance” |
Margaret Fuller | American writer who wrote and edited material on transcendentism |
Henry David Thoreau | American writer most famous for the transcendental ideas he summarized in his book Walden |
utopian communities | experimental communities that tried to create a perfect society |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | American writer best known for his novel The Scarlet Letter |
Edgar Allan Poe | American writer best known for his short stories and poetry |
Emily Dickinson | American poet whose poems were published after her death |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | American poet who wrote popular story-poems like The Song of Hiawatha |
Walt Whitman | American poet best known for his poem Leaves of Grass |