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Chapter XC: Book III: Part III

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I. Transcendentalism: The literature is abundant. See _The Dial_ (4 vols., Boston, 1840-1844).--_The Harbinger_ (4 vols., New York, 1844-1848).--Harold Clarke Goddard, _Studies in New England Transcendentalism_ (New York, 1908).--O. B. Frothingham, _Transcendentalism in New England. A History_ (New York, 1876).--See also Sylvester Judd, _Margaret. A Tale of the Real and Ideal_ (2 vols., Boston, 1845; revised edition, 1851).

II. Ralph Waldo Emerson: _Works_ (Riverside Edition, edited by James Eliot Cabot, 12 vols., Boston, 1884-1893; London, 1884-1893; Centenary Edition, with biographical introduction and notes by E. W. Emerson, 12 vols., Boston, 1903-04; London, 1904).--_Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with Annotations_ (edited by Edward Waldo Emerson and Waldo Emerson Forbes, 10 vols., Boston, 1909-1914).--_Uncollected Writings. Essays, Addresses, Poems, Reviews and Letters by Ralph Waldo Emerson_ (New York [1912]).

See George Willis Cooke, _Bibliography of Ralph Waldo Emerson_ (Boston, 1908). James Eliot Cabot, _A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson_ (2 vols., Boston, 1887). George Willis Cooke, _Ralph Waldo Emerson; His Life, Writings, and Philosophy_ (Boston, 1881). Oscar W. Firkins, _Ralph Waldo Emerson_ (Boston, 1915). W. C. Brownell, _American Prose Masters_ (New York, 1909).

III. Henry David Thoreau: _Works_ (Riverside Edition, 11 vols., Boston, 1894; Manuscript Edition, 20 vols. [Vols. VII-XX contain the Journals], Boston, 1906).

See Francis H. Allen, _A Bibliography of Henry David Thoreau_ (Boston and New York, 1908). William E. Channing, _Thoreau, the Poet-Naturalist_ (Boston, 1873, 1902). F. B. Sanborn, _Henry D. Thoreau_ (in _American Men of Letters Series_, Boston, 1882, 1910); _The Personality of Thoreau_ (Boston, 1901); _The Life of Henry David Thoreau_ (Boston and New York, 1917). Léon Bazalgette, _Henry Thoreau--Bachelor of Nature_ (translated by Van Wyck Brooks, New York, 1924).

IV. Theodore Parker: _Collected Works_ (edited by F. P. Cobbe, 14 vols., London, 1863-71). _The Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of Theodore Parker_ (Boston, 1843). _Speeches, Addresses and Occasional Sermons_ (2 vols., Boston, 1876). _The American Scholar_ (with notes by George Willis Cooke, Boston, 1907).

An excellent study is J. W. Chadwick, _Theodore Parker, a Biography_ (Boston, 1900), containing a bibliography John Weiss, _Life and Correspondence of Theodore Parker_ (2 vols., New York, 1864)--indispensable.

V. Margaret Fuller: Her works have not been collected. Important titles are: _Woman in the Nineteenth Century_ (New York and London, 1845; with additional papers and introduction by Horace Greeley, New York, 1855). _Life Without and Life Within_ (Boston, 1860; New York, 1869). _Papers on Literature and Art_ (2 vols., New York and London, 1846).

An excellent study is Katharine Anthony, _Margaret Fuller: A Psychological Biography_ (New York, 1920). See also R. W. Emerson, W. H. Channing, and J. F. Clarke, _Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli_ (2 vols., Boston, 1833). Thomas Wentworth Higginson, _Margaret Fuller Ossoli_ (in _American Men of Letters Series_, Boston, 1884), containing bibliography.

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