The essential transcendentalists /

The essential transcendentalists / edited and introduced by Richard G. Geldard. - New York : J.P. Tarcher/Penguin, c2005. - 265 p. ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-260) and index.

1: Primary texts -- Introduction to the primary texts -- Observations on the growth of the mind / Sampson Reed -- Preface to Aids to reflection / James Marsh -- Amos Bronson Alcott, early journals -- "Orphic sayings" -- Preface to Conversations with children -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, introduction -- Nature, chapter 1 -- 2: Individual voices -- Introduction to individual voices -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- "The transcendentalist" -- "Circles" -- Frederic Henry Hedge -- "Questionings" -- Amos Bronson Alcott, Journal entries, 1837 -- Margaret Fuller, "flaxman" -- "The sacred marriage" -- "The great lawsuit" -- Henry David Thoreau, "Where I lived, and what I lived for," from Walden -- "Civil disobedience" -- 3: The transcendental heritage -- Introduction to the Transcendental heritage -- Movements and institutions -- Solitary voices -- Walt Whitman -- Emily Dickinson -- Wallace Stevens -- The nature writers -- Loren Eiseley -- Annie Dillard.

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Transcendentalism (New England)
Transcendentalists (New England)

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