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
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
The nature writers. Loren Eiseley
