- Introduction
- I. Forerunners
- 1. Joseph Stevens Buckminster: The Peculiar Blessings of Our Social Condition as Americans
- 2. Edward Everett: Oration Pronounced at Cambridge, before the Society of Phi Beta Kappa, August 26, 1824
- 3. William Ellery Channing: Likeness to God
- II. Impact
- 1. Alexander H. Everett: History of Intellectual Philosophy
- 2. James Marsh: Preliminary Essay
- 3. Timothy Walker: Signs of the Times
- 4. James freeman Clarke: The Influence of Carlyle
- 5. Orestes A. Brownson: The Everlasting Yes
- 6. James Freeman Clarke: Autobiography
- III. Emergence
- 1. Sampson Reed: Oration on Genius
- 2. Sampson Reed: Observations on the Growth of the Mind
- 3. George Ripley: Charles Follen’s Inaugural Discourse
- 4. Convers Francis: Natural Theology
- 5. George Ripley: James Mackintosh
- 6. Frederic Henry Hedge: Coleridge
- 7. Frederic Henry Hedge: Progress of Society
- 8. Isaac Ray: Moral Aspects of Phrenology
- 9. Frederic Henry Hedge: Schiller
- 10. James Walker: Foundations of Faith
- 11. Orestes A. Brownson: Benjamin Contsant
- 12. George Ripley: Herder
- 13. Orestes A. Brownson: Progress of Society
- 14. George Ripley: Herder’s Theological Opinions and Services
- 15. Conelius C. Felton: Wordsworth’s Yarrow Revisited
- 16. George Ripley: Schleiermacher as a Theologian
- 17. Orestes A. Brownson: Education of the People
- 18. Nathaniel L. Frothingham: Sartor Resartus
- IV. Annus Mirabilis
- 1. Orestes A. Brownson: Victor Cousin
- 2. Orestes A. Brownson: New Views of Christianity, Society, and the Church
- 3. William Henry Furness: Remarks on the Four Gospels
- 4. George Ripley: Martineau’s Rationale
- 5. George Ripley: Discourses on the Philosophy of Religion
- 6. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody: Record of a School
- 7. Amos Bronson Alcott: Conversations with Children on the Gospels
- V. Miracles
- 1. Andrews Norton: Ripley’s Martineau
- 2. George Ripley: To Mr. Andrews Norton
- 3. Samuel Osgood: Emerson’s Nature
- 4. James Freeman Clarke: Ripley’s Discourses
- 5. James Freeman Clarke: Alcott
- 6. Martin Luther Hurlbut: Furness’ Remarks
- 7. Francis Bowen: Emerson’s Nature
- 8. Francis Bowen: Locke and the Transcendentalists
- 9. Christopher Pearse Cranch: Emerson’s American Scholar
- 10. Orestes A. Brownson: Introductory Remarks
- 11. Orestes A. Brownson: Francis Bowen
- 12. William Henry Channing: Emerson’s American Scholar
- 13. Orestes A. Brownson: Alcott’s Conversations
- 14. Orestes A. Brownson: Ripley’s Specimens
- 15. Ralph Waldo Emerson: And Address Delivered before the senior Class in Divinity College
- 16. Andrews Norton: The New School in Literature and Religion
- 17. The Christian Examiner: Emerson’s Address
- 18. Orestes A. Brownson: Emerson’s Address
- 19. James Freeman Clarke, Christopher Pearse Cranch: R. W. Emerson and the New School
- 20. Sampson Reed: Preface, Observations, 1838
- 21. Orestes A. Brownson: Norton’s Evidence
- 22. Andrews Norton: A Discourse on the Latest Form of Infidelity
- 23. George Ripley: The Latest Form of Infidelity Examined
- 24. Richard Hildreth: A Letter to Andrews Norton
- 25. Theodore Parker: The Previous Question between Mr. Andrews Norton and His Alumni
- 26. J. W. Alexander, Albert Dod, Charles Hodge: Transcendentalism of the German and of Cousin and Its Influence on Opinion in This Country
- 27. Orestes A. Brownson: Two Articles from the Princeton Review
- VI. Manifestoes
- 1. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Editors to the Reader
- 2. George Ripley: Letter to the Church in Purchase Street
- 3. George Ripley: A Farewell Discourse
- 4. Theodore Parker: A Discourse of the Transient and Permanent in Christianity
- VII. The Movement: Philosophical and Religious
- 1. George Ripley: Jesus Christ, the Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever
- 2. George Ripley: Introductory Notice, Specimens of Foreign Standard Literature
- 3. Christopher Pearse Cranch: Transcendentalism
- 4. Amos Bronson Alcott: Orphic Sayings
- 5. Theodore Parker: A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion
- 6. Henry D. Thoreau: The Natural History of Massachusetts
- VIII. The Movement: Literary and Critical
- 1. Margaret Fuller: Memoirs
- 2. D. L.: Shelley
- 3. James Freeman Clarke: Jones Very
- 4. Jones Very: Epic Poetry
- 5. Jones Very: Shakespeare
- 6. Jones Very: Hamlet
- 7. Jones Very: The Wind-Flower; The Columbine; The New Birth; The Son; The Morning Watch; The Garden; The Presence; Thy Brother’s Blood; Nature; The Meek; The Barberry-Bush; The Children; The Hand and Foot; The New World; To the Fossil Flower; The Prayer; The Silent; The Fox and the Bird
- 8. Margaret Fuller: A Short Essay on Critics
- 9. Margaret Fuller: Menzel’s View of Goethe
- 10. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody: The Word Aesthetic
- 11. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The New Poetry
- 12. William Ellery Channing: The Earth; An Old Man
- 13. Frederic Henry Hedge: Questionings
- 14. Christopher Pearse Cranch: Stanzas; The Ocean; Correspondence; Inworld; Outworld; The Spirit of the Age; The Garden
- 15: Henry D. Thoreau: Sympathy; Stanzas; Sic Vita; The Inward Morning; Free love
- 16. Margaret Fuller: A Dialogue
- 17. Ellen Sturgis Hooper: I Slept, and Dreamed That Life Was Beauty
- 18. Caroline Sturgis Tappan: Poems
- 19. Margaret Fuller: A Record of Impressions
- 20. Sophia Dana Ripley: Painting and Sculpture
- 21. John Sullivan Dwight: Music
- 22. Theodore Parker: The Writing of Ralph Waldo Emerson
- IX. The Movement: Political and Social
- 1. George Bancroft: On the Progress of Civilization
- 2. William Henry Channing: An Ideal of Humanity
- 3. Orestes A. Brownson: Emerson
- 4. Orestes A. Brownson: Wordsworth
- 5. Orestes A. Brownson: The Laboring Classes
- 6. William Henry Channing: Brownson’s Laboring Classes
- 7. Theodore Parker: A Sermon of Merchants
- 8. Margaret Fuller: The Great Lawsuit
- 9. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody: Plan of the West Roxbury Community
- 10. George Ripley: The Harbinger
- 11. Frederic Henry Hedge: The Art of Life
- 12. George B. Loring: Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter
- X. Recollections
- 1. Theodore Parker: Theodore Parker’s Experience as a Minister
- 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Historic Notes of Life and Letters in New England
- Bibliography
- Index
The Transcendentalists
An Anthology
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