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
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
He read Henry David Thoreau’s transcendentalist writings about Walden while sitting in a cell at night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
At one point, the elder Alcott published a series of pompous “Orphic Sayings” in the transcendentalist magazine the Dial.
From Slate ● Jan. 10, 2020
Thoreau just then happened along, and seeing the young woman's distress, he collared the rogues and marched them into the village, turning them over to that redoubtable transcendentalist, Sam Staples, who locked them up.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Hubbard, Elbert
