Transcendental Ideas: Definitions
Definitions from Transcendentalists and their Contemporaries
"Transcendentalism" by Theodore Parker (1841)
[humorous]
"The Transcendentalist."
Lecture by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1842.
Emerson's
Dial
essay on "Transcendentalism"
"Transcendentalism"
, by Octavius Brooks Frothingham.
Charles Dickens' comments on Transcendentalism
"Transcendentalism in New England" by Caroline Dall
"American Transcendentalism,"
James Murdock, 1842
"The Transcendentalism of New England."
John Orr, 1882.
"Towards a Definition of Transcendentalism,"
Henry Gray, 1917
Lydia Emerson's "Transcendental Bible"
[for a touch of realistic humor]
Concord and Salem
Chapter from
Henry James,
The American Scene
Democracy in America
, Alexis de Toqueville (1831) Hypertext at UVa