FTP, what is this school of thought that is centered on the belief that ideal spirituality can only be realized through one's intuition, represented famously by such figures as Emily Dickinson, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Christopher Pearce Cranch was an artist and writer associated with this school of thought, as was the author of what critic James Russell Lowell called "the most emphatically American book ever written", Sylvester Judd. Early members of this school of thought drew inspiration from such wide sources as German realists like Fichte and Schelling, English romantics like Caspar David Friedrich, and Vedic thought, particularly the Bhagavad Gita. The short story "Never Bet the Devil Your Head" was a direct attack on this school of thought, which was also satirized in The Blithedale Romance. The 1836 essay "Nature" is generally considered to be the spark for this movement, which although it began to die out by the 1850's, experienced a second wave under such writers as Samuel Longfellow, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, and Octavius Brooks Frothingham. FTP, what is this school of thought that is centered on the belief that ideal spirituality can only be realized through one's intuition, represented famously by such figures as Emily Dickinson, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Christopher Pearce Cranch was an artist and writer associated with this school of thought, as was the author of what critic James Russell Lowell called "the most emphatically American book ever written", Sylvester Judd.
{Transcendentalism}