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For e.e. cummings, like earlier American transcendentalist poets like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, paying attention was everything.

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2025

Your grandfather was a transcendentalist who wrote about his experiences of communicating with the deceased and held séances for the family, and your father was also an author who published books on U.F.O.s.

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2022

At one point, the elder Alcott published a series of pompous “Orphic Sayings” in the transcendentalist magazine the Dial.

From Slate • Jan. 10, 2020

In 1928 McLaughlin married the grandniece of transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2016

Mr. Hill was something of a transcendentalist in his way.

From Talkers With Illustrations by Bate, John