BOOK LIST
Reading edition
General References
Bibliography
In Goddard, H. C. Studies in New England Transcendentalism. 1908. See also Cambridge History of American Literature, Vol. I, pp. 546–549.
History and Criticism
Cooke, G. W. Poets of Transcendentalism: an Anthology with Introductory Essay. 1903.
Emerson, R. W. The Transcendentalist, in Nature, Addresses and Lectures.
Frothingham, O. B. Transcendentalism in New England, a History. 1876.
Goddard, H. C. Studies in New England Transcendentalism. 1908.
Parker, Theodore. Transcendentalism: a Lecture. 1876.
Special Biographies
Alcott, A. B.
Sanborn, F. B. Bronson Alcott at Alcott House, England, and Fruitlands, New England, 1842–1844. 1908.
Sanborn, F. B. and Harris, Wm. T. A. Bronson Alcott: his Life and Philosophy. 1893. 2 vols.
Emerson, R. W.
See Book List, chap. xiv.
Fuller, Margaret
Emerson, R. W., Channing, W. H., and Clarke, J. F. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 1852. 2 vols.
Higginson, T. W. Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 1884.
Howe, Julia Ward. Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli). 1883.
Parker, Theodore
Frothingham, O. B. Theodore Parker: a Biography. 1874.
Weiss, John. Life and Correspondence of Theodore Parker. 1864. 2 vols.
Ripley, George
Frothingham, O. B. George Ripley. (A.M.L. Ser.) 1882.
Thoreau, Henry David
See Book List, chap. xiv.
The Dial
The standard work is by G. W. Cooke. An Historical and Biographical Introduction to accompany The Dial as reprinted in Numbers for the Rowfant Club, Cleveland. 1902. 2 vols.
The Dial: a Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion, Vols. I–IV. 1840–1844. Reprinted by the Rowfant Club of Cleveland, 1900–1903.
Brook Farm
The standard work is by Lindsay Swift. Brook Farm: its Members, Scholars, and Visitors. 1900. (Contains bibliography.)
Codman, J. T. Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs. 1894.
Cooke, G. W. John Sullivan Dwight, Brook-Farmer, Editor, and Critic of Music. 1898.
Frothingham, O. B. George Ripley. 1882. (A. M. L. Ser.)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Blithedale Romance. 1852.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Passages from the American Notebooks. 1868. 2 vols.