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
Even the eminent Fuller — the first editor of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s transcendentalist journal, the Dial, and literary editor of the New York Tribune — signed her columns with an asterisk, or simply “F.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2023
Your grandfather was a transcendentalist who wrote about his experiences of communicating with the deceased and held séances for the family, and your father was also an author who published books on U.F.O.s.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2022
At one point, the elder Alcott published a series of pompous “Orphic Sayings” in the transcendentalist magazine the Dial.
From Slate ● Jan. 10, 2020
On these nights, too, might be seen Margaret Fuller, the transcendentalist.
From Literary New York Its Landmarks and Associations by Charles Hemstreet
