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

To be a transcendentalist is after all to be only a sensible, unprejudiced man, open to conviction at all times, and spiritually-minded.

From Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord