Transcendentalism: A New England Renaissance – 1889

TRANSCENDENTALISM:

THE NEW ENGLAND RENAISSANCE.*

Tiffany Francis

The subject given me for my brief hour in this course of lectures reads simply “ Transcendentalism.” I propose to enlarge the title into “ Transcendentalism ; or, The New Eng­land Renaissance.” The especial designation, Renaissance, or Re-birth, I would emphasize from the outset, as starting in the mind a distinct class of conceptions, without the aid of which the New England movement cannot be treated with due sense of historical continuity.

 

Transcendentalism 1889 New England Renaissance