R. W. Emerson or H. D. Thoreau?

[captainkeating]

Are you into the early nineteenth century Transcendentalism movement? If so, who is your favourite author of the two most emblematic ones and why: Ralph Waldo Emerson or Henry David Thoreau?

[Dreamwoven]

haven't got a clue about this. Why not start a thread to describe it and the work of its representatives?