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

Meanwhile Sara nurses an unseen sick guest upstairs, a gentleman Yankee who is also afflicted with the touch of the poet, though more of the transcendentalist variety.

From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2020

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

From Slate • Jan. 10, 2020

In Concord, the cast arrived two weeks before shooting to rehearse, first researching the transcendentalist movement and then working on the dialogue together.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2019

When all is said, the self-confidence of the transcendentalist avails for none but himself: as his own craving for countenance shows, his hypothesis must pass muster before reason if it is to persuade.

From Rationalism by Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)