Democratic Voices and Vistas: American Literature from Emerson to Lanier

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iUniverse, 2002 - Literary Criticism - 540 pages
Discussion of the careers and writings of the Transcendentalists, Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott, Fuller, and Parker; the Brahmins, Holmes, Longfellow, and Lowell; and other major 19th Century American Writers, including Poe, Whittier, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Parkman, Dana, Lanier, and many others.

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Contents

The Renascence of New England Thought
1
The Transcendental Club 22
22
Emerson and the Dial
36
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT
61
Fruitlands
79
Minor Transcendentalist Poets
173
Literary Consummations
186
EDGAR ALLAN POE
208
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