Book III: Part III
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Parrington, Vernon Louis
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.