Question

Which American author was most directly inspired by the ideals of transcendentalism?

a. Herman Melville
b. Henry David Thoreau
c. Harris Beecher Stowe
d. James Fennimore Copper

Answer 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson helped to inspire Henry David Thoreau via a book called Nature. Both were fundamental transcendentalists and greatly inspired by its ideals.

So the correct answer is b. Henry David Thoreau................

Answer 2

b. Henry David Thoreau

Step-by-step explanation:

Henry David Thoreau was an American Transcendentalist. Transcendentalism merged as Biblical criticism and Kant transcendental philosophy. Transcendentalists think that religion corrupts the individual. They believe that each individual holds within the divine Over-soul and only a real community can be formed starting from the principle of this individualism.