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
He read Henry David Thoreau’s transcendentalist writings about Walden while sitting in a cell at night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
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
Upon this idea Mr. Blood passes the usual transcendentalist criticism.
From Memories and Studies by Henry James
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