Tag: The Transcendentalists and Their World
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SOLUTIONS 12/17: Emerson and Thoreau speak to our time
By Huck Fairman In happening upon a book review of a new history of the American Transcendentalists, particularly Emerson and Thoreau, I was awakened, as these two thinkers hoped their contemporaries would be, by issues of how we and our community should live. The book, “The Transcendentalists and Their World,” by Robert A. Gross, re-introduces…