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Introduction | |
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A Note on the Texts | |
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Anticipations | |
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Letters to a Future Transcendentalist (1817-51) | |
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Reason Versus Understanding (1825, 1829) | |
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Humanity's Likeness to God (1828) | |
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The Age of Machinery (1829) | |
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A Young Minister Refuses to Perform a Crucial Duty (1832) | |
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The Significance of Kantian Philosophy (1834) | |
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Victor Cousin and the Future of American Philosophy (1838) | |
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Manifestos and Definitions | |
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Nature (1836) | |
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from The Doctrine and Discipline of Human Culture (1836) | |
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The Reconciliation of God, Humanity, State, and Church (1836) | |
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"The American Scholar" (1837) | |
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from "Transcendentalism" (1839) | |
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Letter of Intent to Resign (1840) | |
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"The Transcendentalist" (1841) | |
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On Boston Transcendentalism (1842) | |
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A Transcendentalist's Profession of Faith (1853) | |
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Spiritual Ferment and Religious Reform | |
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Divinity School Address (1838) | |
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from "The New School in Literature and Religion" (1838) | |
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God's Personhood Vindicated (1838) | |
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from A Discourse on the Latest Form of Infidelity (1839) | |
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from "The Latest Form of Infidelity" Examined (1839) | |
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Recollection of Mystical Experiences (1840) | |
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from A Discourse of the Transient and Permanent in Christianity (1841) | |
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"Transcendental Bible" (1841?) | |
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Christianity and Hinduism Compared (1849) | |
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from "The Sympathy of Religions" (1871) | |
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Secular Reform | |
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Reform as Individual Transformation Versus Reform as Systemic Social Change | |
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from "The Laboring Classes" (1840) | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Declines George Ripley's Invitation to Join Brook Farm (1840) | |
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"Self-Reliance" (1841) | |
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from "Plan of the West Roxbury Community" (1842) | |
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Brook Farm's (First Published) Constitution (1844) | |
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from "A Sermon of Merchants" (1846) | |
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On the Italian Revolution (1847-50) | |
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"Resistance to Civil Government" (1849) | |
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Education | |
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A Controversial Experiment in Progressive Education: Part One (1835-36) | |
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A Controversial Experiment in Progressive Education: Part Two (1836-37) | |
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Feminism | |
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A Margaret Fuller Conversation on Gender (1840) | |
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from "The Great Lawsuit" (1843) | |
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Nature and the Health of Body and Spirit | |
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Why Concord? ("Musketaquid") (1843-44, 1847) | |
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from "Life in the Woods" (1844) | |
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from "Walking" (1850-62) | |
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Two Proposals for Land Preservation (1858, 1859) | |
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from "Saints, and Their Bodies" (1858) | |
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Antislavery | |
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The Significance of British West Indian Emancipation (1844) | |
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On The Narrative of Frederick Douglass (1845) | |
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From "The Function of Conscience" (1850) and "The Fugitive Slave Law" (1851) | |
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From "The Fugitive Slave Law" (1854) | |
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From "A Plea for Captain John Brown" (1859) | |
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Literature and the Arts | |
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Critical Statements | |
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"The Editors to the Reader" (1840) | |
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Verses of the Portfolio (1840) | |
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From "The Poet" (1844) | |
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From "American Literature" (1846) | |
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Music Philosophically Considered (1849) | |
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From Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855) | |
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"Improvised" Prose | |
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Selected "Orphic Sayings" (1840) | |
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Report of Margaret Fuller Conversation on "Life" (1841) | |
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From "Sayings of Confucius" (1843) | |
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A Walk to Walden (1843) | |
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First Days at Walden (1845) | |
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Poetry | |
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Boat Song | |
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Hymn of the Earth | |
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From "Wachusett" | |
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Enosis | |
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Correspondences | |
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The Pines and the Sea | |
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Each and All | |
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The Problem | |
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Uriel | |
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The Rhodora: On Being Asked, Whence Is the Flower? | |
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Hamatreya | |
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The Snow-Storm | |
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Ode, Inscribed to W. H. Channing | |
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Bacchus | |
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Hymn: Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836 | |
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Brahma | |
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Boston Hymn Read in Music Hall, January 1, 1863 | |
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Days | |
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Meditations. Sunday, May 12, 1833 | |
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My Seal-Ring | |
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[Each Orpheus] | |
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To a Friend | |
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Frederic Henry Hedge | |
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Questionings | |
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[I stood upon the sullen shore] | |
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[Oh melancholy liberty] | |
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[One look the mother cast upon her child] | |
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[I see them...] | |
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[Better a sin which purposed wrong to none] | |
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[To Emerson] | |
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[Lo! cast upon the shoal of time] | |
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[Great God, I ask thee...] | |
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Haze | |
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[My love must be as free] | |
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The Inward Morning | |
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Sic Vita | |
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Smoke | |
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Jones Very | |
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The New Birth | |
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The Presence | |
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Nature | |
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The Barberry Bush | |
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The Garden | |
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Thy Brother's Blood | |
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Yourself | |
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Thy Better Self | |
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To You | |
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Narrative | |
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"Leila" (1841) | |
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From "Ktaadn" (1848) | |
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A Transcendental Childhood (1888) | |
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Remembrances | |
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Glimpses of Transcendental Concord (1846) | |
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Recollections of a Transcendentalist Insider (1852) | |
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Emerson Observed (1855-63) | |
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A Dying Transcendentalist Looks Back (1859) | |
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From "Historic Notes of Life and Letters in Massachusetts" (1867) | |
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From Transcendentalism in New England (1876) | |
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Transcendentalism as Feminist Heresy (1895) | |
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A Concord Pilgrimage (1907) | |
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For Further Reading | |
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Acknowledgments | |