The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

Thoreau and the Transcendentalists

Lowell, James Russell. "Thoreau and the Transcendentalists." New York Saturday Press, October 28, 1865, 197-199.
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Type
newspaper
Genre
essay
Abstract

Emerson and Carlyle are discussed for their contribution to Transcendentalism; however the focus is on the works of Henry David Thoreau. His thoughts and works project an intellectual selfishness and superiority to the world.