| Description |
xi, 388 pages : 19 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Doubleday anchor books ; A119
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [377]-379) and index. |
| Contents |
The essential transcendentalist / Henry David Thoreau, Journal -- Part I. History and doctrine -- Historic notes of life and letters in New England / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- An essay on transcendentalism / Charles Mayo Ellis -- A participant's definition / William Henry Channing -- A dissenting definition / Orestes Augustus Brownson -- Part II. Naturalism -- The method of nature / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Journal / Henry David Thoreau -- Orphic sayings ; Thoreau and Emerson / Amos Bronson Alcott -- A transcendental conversation / Margaret Fuller -- Part III. Religious radicalism -- A discourse of the transient and permanent in Christianity / Theodore Parker -- Part IV. The literary aspiration -- The editors to the reader / The Dial -- Walking / Henry David Thoreau -- A dialogue ; Goethe / Margaret Fuller -- Beauty / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- American literature / Margaret Fuller -- Part IV. The poetic endeavor -- Poetry and imagination ; Poems / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Poems / Henry David Thoreau -- Poems / William Ellery Channing -- Poems / Amos Bronson Alcott -- Poems / Margaret Fuller -- Poems / Christopher Pearse Cranch -- Questionings / Frederick Henry Hedge -- Poems / Ellen Sturgis Hooper -- Poems / Caroline Sturgis Tappan -- Poems / Jones Very -- Part V. Politics and society -- Aristocracy / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Life without principle / Henry David Thoreau -- Woman in the nineteenth century / Margaret Fuller -- Democracy and liberty / Amos Bronson Alcott -- Part VI. Future reference -- The political destination of America and the signs of the times / Theodore Parker -- Letter to Mr. Walter Whitman / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Meeting Whitman / Henry David Thoreau -- Thoreau / Ralph Waldo Emerson. |
| Indexed In: |
Heller, Steven. Edward Gorey : his book cover art & design, page 51. |
| Summary |
Anthology of works by New England writers of the early 1800's. |
| Subject |
American literature -- New England.
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American literature -- 19th century.
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Transcendentalism (New England)
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New England -- Literary collections.
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American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
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Transcendentalism (New England) (OCoLC)fst01154551
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New England. (OCoLC)fst01241913
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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| Genre/Form |
Literary collections. (OCoLC)fst01423811
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| Added Author |
Gorey, Edward, 1925-2000, typographer, designer of book cover.
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