Introduction to Romanticism and Transcendentalism

What is the transcendentalist belief about nature?

• nature is "just there"

• nature is awe-inspiring and reflects spirituality

• nature is unstable and changes too much

• nature is the origin of evil

According to the Transcendentalists, the way to discover spirituality is:

• by looking inwards & connecting to nature to discover self

• by listening to what your parents & following the rules

• by going to church every Wednesday & Sunday

• by listening to music & reading poetry

Which of the following preferred intuition over reason?

• Puritan

• Native American

• American Gothic

• Transcendentalism

Transcendentalism was part of which literary movement?

• Colonialism

• Rationalism and the Enlightenment

• American Realism

• American Romaticism

The values of Transcendentalism starts with ______________________ and Intuition.

• Instinct

• Liberty

• Work

• Nature

Romanticism believed in...

• Emotions and Imagination

• Conformity

• Romantic Love

• Logic and Facts

What are the two major categories of American Romanticism?

• Gothic Romantic & Religiousness

• Realism & Transcendentalism

• Gothic Romantic & Transcendentalism

• Realism & Regionalism

Who wrote Nature & Self-Reliance?

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Arthur Miller

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

Transcendentalists believed that society and its institutions corrupt the purity of the human soul

• True

• False

Who was the founding father of Transcendentalism?

• Thoreau

• Whitman

• Emerson

• Waldo