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Poll Question: Who is your favorite of the movement?
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    Posted: December 18 2011 at 16:17
I've been reading a lot recently. Was wondering who other people enjoy and the general opinion of the movement.
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Transcendentalism was the hippie movement of the 19th century.  Tongue

I don't particularly like any of them (bizarre metaphors, officious advice, nebulous spirituality).  I'll take moderate Romanticism and leave the extremists alone.  Wink
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None of them.
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I didn't read any of them - and anyone I'd choose would be only the fourth poet I ever (attempted to) read.

But - would I like Whitman?
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Thoreau is pretty much a boss, though I haven't really read any of the others.
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Points: 15784 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 18 2011 at 20:56
Awww man nobody likes my poll :( I thought they were more popular guys. Maybe the geography has something to do with the discrepancy.

Thoreau is my boy. His essay Civil Disobedience is pretty much the greatest thing ever written.
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I would like Thoreau more if he wasn't dry as toast.
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I like the Transcendental pessimists more than the Transcendental optimists. Poe, Melville, Hawthorne.
 
I've been meaning to get some Whitman though.
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Hawthorne and Poe were critics of the movement. Especially Poe, I've never seen him described as a part of it. 
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Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

Hawthorne and Poe were critics of the movement. Especially Poe, I've never seen him described as a part of it. 


Indeed.
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Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

Hawthorne and Poe were critics of the movement. Especially Poe, I've never seen him described as a part of it. 


Indeed.

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Oh, I thought it was about alcoolics.
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I've read paragraphs from Emerson as quoted by others and I found them wonderful, but I never got to properly read any of his works. I'm still interested, and same with Whitman.

I haven't heard of this movement before, though.
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I thought this was a thread about The Transcendental One from Planescape: Torment.

Oh well.
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Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

I've read paragraphs from Emerson as quoted by others and I found them wonderful, but I never got to properly read any of his works. I'm still interested, and same with Whitman.

I haven't heard of this movement before, though.


It was confined to the Northeastern region of the US as far as I know.

You should read one of my favorite poems. It's by Whitman, The Noiseless, Patient Spider
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Originally posted by Andyman1125 Andyman1125 wrote:

I would like Thoreau more if he wasn't dry as toast.
 
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