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The Transcendentalists and Their World

  • Robert A. Gross
2021
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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  • Watercolor portrait of Bronson Alcott, a 19th century American philosopher and educator.
    Book Review

    New England Ecstasies

    The transcendentalists thought all human inspiration was divine, all nature a miracle.
    by Brenda Wineapple via New York Review of Books on February 16, 2022
  • Collage of nature images and transcendentalists' faces, with flowers in Emerson's eyes.
    Book Review

    Emerson and Thoreau’s Fanatical Freedom

    Why do the Transcendentalists still have an outsize influence on American culture?
    by Sarah Blackwood via The New Republic on January 6, 2022
  • A colorful bird and landscape sketched within the shape of a man's head.
    Book Review

    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.
    by Mark Greif via The Atlantic on November 9, 2021
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