The transcendentalists : an anthology / [edited by] Perry Miller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Miller, Perry, 1905-1963.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transcendentalism (New England).

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvii, 521 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1950.

Contents:

The peculiar blessings of our social condition as Americans / Joseph Stevens Buckminster

Oration pronounced at Cambridge, before the Society of Phi Beta Kappa, August 26, 1824 / Edward Everett

Likeness to God / William Ellery Channing

History of intellectual philosophy / Alexander H. Everett

Preliminary essay / James Marsh

Signs of the times / Timothy Walker

The influence of Carlyle / James Freeman Clarke

The everlasting yes / Orestes A. Brownson

Autobiography / James Freeman Clarke

Oration on genius / Sampson Reed

Observations on the growth of the mind / Sampson Reed

Charles Follen's inaugural discourse / George Ripley

Natural theology / Convers Francis

James Mackintosh / George Ripley

Coleridge / Frederic Henry Hedge

Progress of society / Frederic Henry Hedge

Moral aspects of phrenology / Isaac Ray

Schiller / Frederic Henry Hedge

Foundations of faith / James Walker

Benjamin Constant / Orestes A. Brownson

Herder / George Ripley

Progress of society / Orestes A. Brownson

Herder's theological opinions and services / George Ripley

Wordsworth's Yarrow revisited / Cornelius C. Felton

Schleiermacher as a theologian / George Ripley

Education of the people / Orestes A. Brownson

Sartor resartus / Nathaniel L. Frothingham

Victor Cousin / Orestes A. Brownson

New views of Christianity, society, and the Church / Orestes A. Brownson

Remarks on the four Gospels / William Henry Furness

Martineau's Rationale / George Ripley

Discourses on the philosophy of religion / George Ripley

Record of a school / Elizabeth Palmer Peabody

Conversations with children on the Gospels / Amos Bronson Alcott

Ripley's Martineau / Andrews Norton

To Mr. Andrews Norton / George Ripley

Emerson's Nature / Samuel Osgood

Ripley's Discourses / James Freeman Clarke

Alcott / James Freeman Clarke

Furness' Remarks / Martin Luther Hurlbut

Emerson's Nature / Francis Bowen

Locke and the Transcendentalists / Francis Bowen

Emerson's American scholar / Christopher Pearse Cranch

Introductory remarks / Orestes A. Brownson

Francis Bowen / Orestes A. Brownson

Emerson's American scholar / William Henry Channing

Alcott's Conversations / Orestes A. Brownson

Ripley's Specimens / Orestes A. Brownson

An address delivered before the senior class in Divinity College / Ralph Waldo Emerson

The new school in literature and religion / Andrews Norton

Emerson's Address / The christian examiner

Emerson's Address / Orestes A. Brownson

R.W. Emerson and the new school / James Freeman Clarke, Christopher Pearse Cranch

Preface, Observations, 1838 / Sampson Reed

Norton's Evidence / Orestes A. Brownson

A discourse on the latest form of infidelity / Andrews Norton

The latest form of infidelity examined / George Ripley

A letter to Andrews Norton / Richard Hildreth

The previous question between Mr. Andrews Norton and his alumni / Theodore Parker

Transcendentalism of the Germans and of Cousin and its influence on opinion in this country / J.W. Alexander, Albert Dod, Charles Hodge

Two articles from The Princeton review / Orestes A. Brownson

The editors to the reader / Ralph Waldo Emerson

Letter to the church in Purchase Street / George Ripley

A farewell discourse / George Ripley

A discourse of the transient and permanent in Christianity / Theodore Parker

Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever / George Ripley

Introductory notice, specimens of foreign standard literature / George Ripley

Transcendentalism / Christopher Pearse Cranch

Orphic sayings / Amos Bronson Alcott

A discourse of matters pertaining to religion / Theodore Parker

The natural history of Massachusetts / Henry D. Thoreau

Memoirs / Margaret Fuller

Shelley / D.L.

Jones Very / James Freeman Clarke

Epic poetry / Jones Very

Shakespeare / Jones Very

Hamlet / 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 / Jones Very

A short essay on critics / Margaret Fuller

Menzel's view of Goethe / Margaret Fuller

The word Aesthetic / Elizabeth Palmer Peabody

The new poetry / Ralph Waldo Emerson

The earth ; An old man / William Ellery Channing

Questionings / Frederic Henry Hedge

Stanzas ; The ocean ; Correspondence ; Inworld ; Outworld ; The spirit of the age ; The garden / Christopher Pearse Cranch

Sympathy ; Stanzas ; Sic vita ; The inward morning ; Free love / Henry D. Thoreau

A dialogue / Margaret Fuller

I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty / Ellen Sturgis Hooper

Poems / Caroline Sturgis Tappan

A record of impressions / Margaret Fuller

Painting and sculpture / Sophia Dana Ripley

Music / John Sullivan Dwight

The writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson / Theodore Parker

On the progress of civilization / George Bancroft

An ideal of humanity / William Henry Channing

Emerson / Orestes A. Brownson

Wordsworth / Orestes A. Brownson

The laboring classes / Orestes A. Brownson

Brownson's Laboring classes / William Henry Channing

A sermon of merchants / Theodore Parker

The great lawsuit / Margaret Fuller

Plan of the West Roxbury community / Elizabeth Palmer Peabody

The harbinger / George Ripley

The art of life / Frederic Henry Hedge

Hawthorne's Scarlet letter / George B. Loring

Theodore Parker's experience as a minister / Theodore Parker

Historic notes of life and letters in New England / Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 503-510) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Transcendentalists.

ISBN:

0674903331

9780674903333

OCLC:

818471