"Self-Reliance" is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. Mekas titled his film after Thoreau's transcendentalist book "Walden". This path was taken by some Transcendentalist educators, such as Amos Bronson Alcott. Ellen was the sister of the Transcendentalist and feminist author, Margaret Fuller. Emerson introduces Transcendentalist and Romantic views to explain an American scholar's relationship to nature. She has been regarded, alongside Emerson (whose poems Dickinson admired), as a Transcendentalist. He was referring to Channing's Transcendentalist poetry style. Many scholars link this development to the romantic and transcendentalist movements of the 19th century. This artistic movement also coincided with the Transcendentalist movement in the Western world. The story also suggests Ligeia is a transcendentalist, a group of people Poe often criticized. Critics have noted a strong Transcendentalist influence on the poem. He considers himself a "self-taught modern New England transcendentalist". Parker gradually introduced Transcendentalist ideas into his sermons. Fruitlands had only a brief opportunity to impact America and the Transcendentalist movement. From 1842 until 1846 Northampton was home to a transcendentalist utopian community of abolitionists.