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- Definitions of Transcendentalism - Towards a Definition of Transcendentalism: A Few Comments (from Henry David Gray, Emerson: A Statement of N. E. Transcendentalism as Expressed in the Philosophy of Its Chief Exponent, 1917)
- American Transcendentalism - Focuses on 19th century American Transcendentalism and the revelance of the movement in the present.
- Transcendental Meditation - Provides details of programmes in England.
- What is Transcendentalism? - An introductory essay explaining the roots and basic ideas of Transcendentalism.
- Transcendentalism - Essay on Transcendentalism, by Ralph Waldo Emerson himself. From the Dial, 1842.
- All-Reviews.com: Steve Earle - Transcendental Blues - LarryG's review: "it's a rich and varied work, overflowing with great rockers, folk music and ballads." 4 stars out of 4.
- Transcendentalism - Open-minded people must use common sense to determine whether God/Allah was incorrectly perceived, misinterpreted and misunderstood by the masses of a bygone era.
- What is Transcendentalism? - From students at Virginia Commonwealth University.
- PopMatters: Steve Earle - Mitchell Moore's review: "there's nothing much 'country' about Transcendental Blues. It is, in fact, one rocking mother."
- Transcendental Aesthetics and Writing - Aesthetics in transcendental literature, including Emerson and Thoreau.
Wikipedia Articles
- Transcendentalism - Transcendentalism was a group of new ideas in literature, religion, culture, and philosophy that emerged in New England in the early to middle 19th century. It is sometimes called American Transcendentalism to distinguish it from other uses of the word transcendental.
- Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (December 15, 1831–February 24, 1917) was an American journalist, author, and reformer. Sanborn was a social scientist, and a memorialist of American transcendentalism who wrote early biographies of many of the movement's key figures.
- Divinity School Address - Ralph Waldo Emerson's speech to the graduating class of Harvard Divinity School on July 15, 1838 is commonly known as his "Divinity School Address". In the address, Emerson adumbrates many of the tenets of Transcendentalism against a more conventional Unitarian theology.
- New England Transcendentalists - New England Transcendentalists are the core group of writers from whom the phenomenon of American Transcendentalism radiated. The primary examples are Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Bronson Alcott among others from Concord, Massachusetts.
- First contact (science fiction) - First contact is a common science-fictional theme about the first meeting between humans and aliens, or, more broadly, of any sentient race's first encounter with another one. The theme allows authors to explore such topics such as xenophobia, transcendentalism, and basic linguistics by adapting the anthropological topic of first contact to extraterrestrial cultures.