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 1928 McLaughlin married the grandniece of transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2016
Doubtless he may have esteemed him as a naturalist, but not as a transcendentalist or as an impracticable faddist who refused to pay taxes because Massachusetts enforced the fugitive slave law.
From Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
