Key terms and People
Transcendentalism- the belief that people could transcend, or rise above, material things in life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau- important and inspirational transcendentalists.
Utopian communities- groups of people who tried to form a perfect society.
Nathaniel Hawthorne- a writer from New England who wrote "The Scarlet letter" during the mid-1800s.
Edgar Allan Poe- a poet who became famous for writing a haunting poem called "The Raven".
Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Walt Whitman- other famous American poets.
Dickinson's poems were only published after her death. Longfellow wrote story-poems like "The song of Hiawatha" Whitman had a poetry collection called
'Leaves of Grass."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau- important and inspirational transcendentalists.
Utopian communities- groups of people who tried to form a perfect society.
Nathaniel Hawthorne- a writer from New England who wrote "The Scarlet letter" during the mid-1800s.
Edgar Allan Poe- a poet who became famous for writing a haunting poem called "The Raven".
Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Walt Whitman- other famous American poets.
Dickinson's poems were only published after her death. Longfellow wrote story-poems like "The song of Hiawatha" Whitman had a poetry collection called
'Leaves of Grass."
By: Angel White
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