Which 19th-century transcendentalist essayist and poet wrote 'Self-Reliance' and 'Nature', advocating individualism and a spiritual connection to the natural world?

• A Henry David Thoreau
• B Walt Whitman
• C Ralph Waldo Emerson ✓
• D Margaret Fuller

Emerson was the central figure of the Transcendentalist movement, emphasising intuition over tradition and the divine in each individual.