The speaker of a poem from this movement imagines having “faith like that which fired Novalis” and a spirit rising with “heavenward-look, and Phoenix-plumes upsoaring!” The line “The self-same power that brought me there, brought you” ends a poem from this movement subtitled “On Being Asked, Whence Is the Flower?” which claims that “beauty is its own excuse for Being.” Hinduism and Indian philosophy inspired “Hamatreya” and “Brahma,” two poems from this movement by the author of (*) “The Rhodora.” Poems from this movement were often published in The Dial, a magazine once edited by Margaret Fuller. A proponent of this movement wrote about the concept of “genius” in his essays “The Poet” and “Self-Reliance.” For 10 points, name this American literary movement of the 19th century which included Ralph Waldo Emerson. ■END■
ANSWER: Transcendentalism (The poem in the first line is “Meditations” by Margaret Fuller.)
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