Who Was The Leader Of American Transcendentalism?

Who Was The Leader Of American Transcendentalism? Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson was the primary practitioner of the movement, which existed loosely in Massachusetts in the early 1800s before becoming an organized group in the 1830s. Who came first Thoreau or Emerson? Henry David Thoreau began writing nature poetry in the 1840s, with poet Ralph Waldo