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What writer expressed the ideas of transcendentalism?

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The ideas of transcendentalism were most eloquently expressed by Ralph Waldo Emerson in such essays as "Nature" (1836) "Self-Reliance " and "The Over-Soul" (both 1841) and by Henry David Thoreau in his book Walden (1854).

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