This PowerPoint is designed to make the premises of Romanticism and, especially, American Transcendentalism accessible to high school students. It contains 12 slides on these movements. The initial slides offer a very brief background on Romanticism, while the remainder (the final 8 slides) are focused on Transcendentalism. I have used this presentation numerous times when teaching works by Thoreau, Emerson, Whitman, etc., and it has been very effective in allowing my students to understand the