What is Transcendentalism and what two authors were key contributors?

idealistic philosophical and social movement which developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism. Influenced by romanticism, Platonism, and Kantian philosophy, it taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity, and its members held progressive views on feminism and communal living

ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David thoreau

Explanation:

answer; having the power of reprieve means being able to release people from punishment;