Word: thoreauvian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...laws, rhythms and mysteries of nature and happiest if they live in harmony with it, and their dwellings should reflect this unity inside and out. Wright's canon of organic design (which, being a loquacious and somewhat argumentative man, he often confused and even contradicted) is no Thoreauvian Utopia. He shared the American faith of his time in the blessings of technology. "This thing we call the Machine," he said in 1901, "is no more or less than the principle of organic growth working irresistibly the Will of Life through the medium of Man." But machine products, he believed...
Channing could only glimpse the Keatsian stars and the Thoreauvian mornings. While he looked inward in an age that insisted the truth was outside the self. Channing advanced, Delbanco reminds us, toward the Transcendentalist belief in the internalized, of the divine without reaching it. The author's compelling analysis claims that Channing "is willing to seek truth in the mental process itself." He "discredits" history, "dismantles" nature, and assails the law as he comes closer to understanding his own human head. Delbanco affirms "he has affinities with Emerson, with William James. But he has no school." In an age when...