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 Concord, the cast arrived two weeks before shooting to rehearse, first researching the transcendentalist movement and then working on the dialogue together.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2019
Now, you know, he is a transcendentalist, so I don't mind these vagaries; yet he is desperately in earnest.
From My New Curate by Sheehan, Patrick Augustine
