Word: transcendentalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry Seidel Canby's Thoreau, dressiest biography of him so far, is timely rather than definitive. Canby unearths scant new material, finds no satisfactory answers to such speculations as: Was Henry in love with Emerson's wife? Was it Margaret Fuller, the Transcendentalist, to whom he sent his famous "hollow shot" No to a marriage proposal? The fact is that Thoreau's own writings contain just about all there is on Thoreau...
Waldo Frank, 47, is an inverted Theodore Dreiser, a modern transcendentalist, a mystical Marxist. He is also, at times and in spots, a forceful novelist. Combining passion and penetration with plodding Joycean prose and purblind bookishness, he is a perfect layer cake of the admirable and the irritating...
Emerson's best letters were written to his family on his lecture tours. They considerably spoil the conventional picture of New England's Transcendentalist-in-chief as shy, frail and retiring. Because Emerson was surrounded by people like volcanic bluestocking Margaret Fuller, semi-insane Greek Scholar Jones Very, zany Poet Ellery Channing and "this Gautama" Bronson Alcott, myth has made him one of them. His letters show he never wholly...