In this Presentation you can find basic biography of Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller the main three transcendentalists.

1. Transcendentalists
•Thoreau•
•Emerson•
•Fuller•

2. Henry David
Thoreau

3. Biography of Henry David
Thoreau
❖ Born on July 12, 1817, Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.
❖ Died on May 6, 1862, Concord
❖ American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher
❖ Founder of 'The Dial’
❖ Award:- Hall of Fame (1960)
❖ Movement :- Transcendentalism
❖ Style:- American Renaissance
❖ 'Civil Disobedience'
❖ 'The Maine Woods'
❖ 'Walden’

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7. Themes and Writing style
❖ Nature and conduct of life.
❖ His main idea is to find the meaning of life.
❖ He contempt himself and life to find man's role in the
world.
❖ Thoreau admired direct, vigorous, succinct, economical
prose.
❖ For him, the importance of content far outweighed that of
style.
❖ He avoided overemphasis on form at the expense of
content.

8. “How vain it is to sit down to
write when you have not stood
up to live.”
“Rather than love, than
money, than fame, give
me truth.”

9. Ralph Waldo
Emerson
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10. Biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson
❖ Born : 1803
❖ Died : 1882
❖ Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American Essayist,
lecturer, Philosopher, abolitionists and Poet.
❖ He led the Transcendentalist movement of the Mid 19th
century.
❖ He is recognised as our first truly 'American Thinker’.
❖ Emerson wrote most of his important essays as
lectures first and then revised them for print.
❖ He was graduated from Harvard University.
❖ He was awarded with Hall of Fame in 1900.

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❖ In 1836 Emerson met his best friend Henry David Thoreau.
❖ Later that year he founded the Transcendental club along with
Henry David Thoreau and Margaret Fuller.
❖ His Intellectual contribution to the philosophy of
Transcendentalism inspired uniquely American idealism and
spirit of reform.
❖ He inspired people to look into themselves, into nature, into
art.
❖ He also considered as the Spiritual voice of his generation.

12. Notable Ideas and Works
Notable Ideas
❖ Self – Reliance
❖ Transparent eyeball
❖ Consciousness
❖ Stream of thought
Notable Works
❖ Nature
❖ Self – Reliance
❖ Compensation
❖ The Poet
❖ Society and Solitude
❖ Circles
❖ Addressed at Divinity College
❖ Spiritual Laws

13. Themes and Writing style
❖ Emerson asserts throughout nature
the primacy of spirit over matter.
❖ Nature’s purpose is as a
representation of the divine to
promote human insight into the laws
of the universe, and thus to bring man
closer to God.
❖ His Method of writing can be
investigated as a Self – Reflective
Experimentation.

15. ❖ Margaret Fuller, in full Sarah Margaret Fuller and married name
Marchesa Ossoli
❖ Born on May 23, 1810, Cambridgeport [now part of Cambridge],
Mass., U.S.
❖ Died on July 19, 1850, at sea off Fire Island.
❖ She was American critic, teacher, and woman of letters whose
efforts to civilize the taste and enrich the lives of her
contemporaries make her significant in the history of American
culture.
❖ Notable Works: “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”
❖ Movement :- Transcendentalism
❖ Style:- American Renaissance
Margaret Fuller

17. Contributors and
presenters
❖ Payal Bhambhaniya
❖ Nirali Dabhi
❖ Pooja Bhuva
❖ Aarti Sarvaiya