TY - BOOK AU - Geldard,Richard G. TI - The essential transcendentalists SN - 158542434X PY - 2005/// CY - New York PB - J.P. Tarcher/Penguin KW - Transcendentalism (New England) KW - Transcendentalists (New England) N1 - 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 ER -