Transcendentalism cont.
The ìOversoulî -- power for goodness of which all things are a part and from which all things come.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: ìSelf-Relianceî (1841);humans as part of Universeís absolute good.
Henry David Thoreau: ìCivil Disobedienceî (1849/66), Walden (1854); divinity in natureís ìunspotted innocenceî
Importance of imagination over reason: mystical, individual, democratic. (Poe, Bryant, Longfellow, Whitman)
In art, asymmetry over symmetry; inspiration from ruins; gothicism over neoclassicism.