1: Primary texts
Introduction to the primary texts
Observations on the growth of the mind / Sampson Reed
Preface to Aids to reflection / James Marsh
Amos Bronson Alcott, early journals
"Orphic sayings"
Prefect to Conversations with children
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, introduction
Nature, chapter 1
2: Individual voices
Introduction to individual voices
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The transcendentalist"
"Circles"
Frederic Henry Hedge
"Questionings"
Amos Bronson Alcott, Journal entries, 1837
Margaret Fuller, "flaxman"
"The sacred marriage"
"The great lawsuit"
Henry David Thoreau, "Where I lived, and what I lived for," from Walden
"Civil disobedience"
3: The transcendental heritage
Introduction to the Transcendental heritage
Movements and institutions
Solitary voices
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
Wallace Stevens
The nature writers
Loren Eiseley
Annie Dillard.