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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2021

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

But he could hardly charge this on Parker, who was an ardent transcendentalist, but whose very language was vascular, who affected multitudes of men and women, and who held audiences by the heartstrings.

From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks