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The essential transcendentalists / edited and introduced by Richard G. Geldard.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : J.P. Tarcher/Penguin, c2005.Description: 265 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 158542434X
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Contents:
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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Interest abounds in the work of the Transcendentalists, such as Emerson, Thoreau, and Bronson Alcott. Each year, tens of thousands of readers rediscover Transcendental thought in books and articles, and in visits to historic sites, such as Walden Pond. But few appreciate the truly mystical and contemplative qualities of the Transcendentalists, and the spiritual movements and figures they have since inspired.

As Richard G. Geldard-one of today's leading scholars of Emerson-illustrates in The Essential Transcendentalists , Transcendentalism adds up to a school of practical spiritual philosophy that aims to guide the individual toward inner development, much like that of Stoicism in Western antiquity. This current of New England mysticism has influenced modern-day luminaries as diverse as essayist Annie Dillard and Ernest Holmes, founder of the worldwide Religious Science movement.

Through revealing commentary, historical overview, and selections from classic works, The Essential Transcendentalists provides a distinctive and heretofore neglected examination of the spiritual breadth and depth of "Yankee mysticism."

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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