Introduction to Romanticism and Transcendentalism

What are the main ideas of Romanticism?

• Imagination, nature, innocence, and individualism

• Nature, people, religion, and heaven

• Synthesis, evaluation, and connection

• Conforming to the idea's of society

The belief that feelings and intuition are superior to logic and reasons relates to...

• romantic sensibility

• journey

• escape

Romantics believed that youthful _________ is better than educated sophistication

• beauty

• innocence

• ignorance

• energy

What did the Romantics value more?

• City Life

• Life in Nature

Romantics sought truth and tranquility in...

• God

• nature

• family

Where did the Transcendentalists believe that you could find God?

• Nature

• Church

• Inside yourself

• At the flagpole 

Who is considered the "father" of Transcendentalism?

• Henry David Thoreau

• Margaret Fuller

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Robin Williams

Transcendentalists believe that ___________ , humanity, and nature share a universal soul.

• God

• Animals

• Literature

• Government

Transcendentalists believed all people are inherently:

• good

• evil

• neutral

• bad

Transcendentalism values...

• Nonconformity

• Conformity

• Technological advances

• Society