transcendentalist

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For e.e. cummings, like earlier American transcendentalist poets like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, paying attention was everything.

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2025

Your grandfather was a transcendentalist who wrote about his experiences of communicating with the deceased and held séances for the family, and your father was also an author who published books on U.F.O.s.

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2022

He read Henry David Thoreau’s transcendentalist writings about Walden while sitting in a cell at night.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2021

At one point, the elder Alcott published a series of pompous “Orphic Sayings” in the transcendentalist magazine the Dial.

From Slate • Jan. 10, 2020

The transcendentalist in all his particular knowledges is as liable to this reduction as I am: his Absolute does not save him.

From Essays in Radical Empiricism by James, William