| |  | Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early nineteenth century. |  | Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862; born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, de... |  | Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (May 23, 1810 - June 19, 1850) was a journalist, critic and women's rights activist. The most important gender... |  | Theodore Parker (August 24 1810, Lexington, Massachusetts - May 10 1860, Florence, Italy) was an American Transcendentalist and reforming minister... |  | Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian, whose work was hugely influential during the Victorian era. Coming from a strictly... |  | William Ellery Channing (June 10, 1818-December 23, 1901) was a Transcendentalist poet, nephew of the Unitarian preacher Dr. William Ellery... |  | Amos Bronson Alcott (November 29, 1799 - March 4, 1888) was an American teacher and writer. He is remembered for founding a short-lived and... |  | George Ripley (October 3, 1802-July 4,1880) was an American social reformer, Unitarian, and Transcendentalist. He is best remembered as the founder... |  | Octavius Brooks Frothingham (November 26, 1822 - November 27, 1895), was an American clergyman and author. |  | Jones Very (1813 - 1880) was an essayist and poet, born at Salem, Mass., where he became a clergyman and something of a mystic. He published one... | |
