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'''Transcendentalism''' was an American literary, political, and philosophical movement of writers in New England who held a philosophy which says that thought and spiritual things are more real than ordinary human experience and material things.<ref>[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/transcendentalism Transcendentalism]</ref><ref>[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/transcendentalism/ Transcendentalism], [[Stanford University]]</ref><ref>[http://transcendentalism-legacy.tamu.edu/ideas/brhistory.html Transcendental Ideas: Social Reform], History of Brook Farm</ref>

'''Transcendentalism''' was an American literary, political, and philosophical movement of writers in New England who held a philosophy which says that thought and spiritual things are more real than ordinary human experience and material things.<ref>[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/transcendentalism Transcendentalism]</ref><ref>[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/transcendentalism/ Transcendentalism], [[Stanford University]]</ref><ref>[http://transcendentalism-legacy.tamu.edu/ideas/brhistory.html Transcendental Ideas: Social Reform], History of Brook Farm</ref>

The movement is closely associated with [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]].  Other well known Transcendentalists include [[Henry David Thoreau]], [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]], [[Herman Melville]], and [[Walt Whitman]].

The movement is closely associated with [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]].  Other well known Transcendentalists include [[Henry David Thoreau]], [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]], [[Herman Melville]], and [[Walt Whitman]].