The Transcendentalists

Emerson and Thoreau and the New England visionaries who married philosophy to nature and conscience, and gave America its first homegrown thought.

Self-reliance and the American soul

In this collection

• City of Orgies
• To a Pupil
• The Dark Side
• O Tan-Faced Prairie Boy
• Free Love
• Fit Audience
• When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'D
• I am Bound for a Distant Shore
• Dirge for Two Veterans
• Hymn of Dead Soldiers
• After the Death of John Brown
• Conscience
• 1861
• Representative Men
• Wonders
• The Poet's Delay
• A Sight in Camp
• Nominalist and Realist
• The Funeral Bell
• Canoeing in the Wilderness
• Vigil on the Field.
• Poverty. a Fragment
• To the Maiden in the East
• To a Stray Fowl
• Some Tumultuous Little Rill
• Boston Town
• Flux
• Prudence
• The Mother of All
• Homer; Ossian; Chaucer

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