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The Transcendentalists and Their World
Robert A. Gross
2021
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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New England Ecstasies
The transcendentalists thought all human inspiration was divine, all nature a miracle.
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Brenda Wineapple
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New York Review of Books
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February 16, 2022
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Emerson and Thoreau’s Fanatical Freedom
Why do the Transcendentalists still have an outsize influence on American culture?
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Sarah Blackwood
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The New Republic
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January 6, 2022
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Emerson Didn’t Practice the Self-Reliance He Preached
How Transcendentalism, the American philosophy that championed the individual, caught on in tight-knit Concord, Massachusetts.
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Mark Greif
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The Atlantic
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November 9, 2021