The Transcendentalists: Self-reliance and the American soul

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

In this collection

• The Fall of the Leaf
• After the Supper and Talk
• Over the Carnage
• The Poet's Delay
• The Dalliance of the Eagles
• The City of Friends
• A Broadway Pageant
• Canoeing in the Wilderness
• Experience
• O Tan-Faced Prairie Boy
• The Friend
• Envy
• Starting from Paumanok
• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
• To my Brother
• Poverty. a Fragment
• This Compost
• Concord River
• A Ship
• Nature
• The Wounded
• To a Pupil
• France, the Eighteenth Year of these States
• The Flag
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