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Links
on Transcendentalism
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Transcendentalism
A
site on what is Transcendentalism, with the relevant authors and their
texts, their ideas, criticism on the period, bibliography for further
information, is a very resourceful site.
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American
Transcendentalism An introductory site to what is
Transcendentalism, included with more information on Emerson's thinking and
the controversial ideas of the particular era. (Word
File Version)
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Brief
Introduction of American Transcendentalism An
introductory site on what is transcendentalism, included with its ideas and
premises, chronology, their beliefs and reasons to begin the movement as
well as the comments given by the contemporaries in that time. (Word
File Version)
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Transcendentalists
A very resourceful site, with the authors of this period, databank of the
essays and relevant sites, discussion board, as well as the
quotations.
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PowerPoint
file on Transcendentalism
A resourceful file, with many background information and concepts of this
movement, and ideas of the authors during this time.
Links on
Emerson's Nature and Other Writings
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Information
on Ralph Waldo Emerson
An
introductory site on Ralph Waldo Emerson, with brief information on him as a
man, his writings and others (partial Word
File Version)
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Commentary
on Emerson's Nature
(Word
File Version)
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The
Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson A
very complete site on Ralph Waldo Emerson, with his writings, of poems,
lectures, prose, books, essays and others, as well as the commentary on him,
the brief biography on him and others.
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Ralph
Waldo Emerson: American Author, Poet and Philosopher
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PowerPoint
files on Ralph Waldo Emerson If
you want to see the detailed version, with more pictures, and the complete
summary of the 8 books in Nature, written by Emerson, please click 1,
or if you want to see the simpler version, see 2.
Links
on Henry David Thoreau and His Walden
Information
on Henry David Thoreau
An
introductory site on Henry David Thoreau, with his biography, his writings, and
others. (Word
File Version)
Information
on Walden A
site on the study texts, with all sorts of footnotes in the work itself.
The
Thoreau Reader A
site with almost all the information on Thoreau's writings, from books, essays
to the relevant sites on Thoreau as well as the relationship between Henry David
Thoreau and other authors, such as Hawthorne and Emerson, and even a lot of
other pictures.
More
information on Henry David
Thoreau's Walden
Essays
on Henry David Thoreau
(Word
File Version)
Information
on Henry David Thoreau A
Microsoft Word file on his thoughts and ideas from
Asia
, and his influences, what the critics say of him, and discussion questions
PowerPoint
on Henry David Thoreau's Walden
1
and
2
The
first PowerPoint file is a detailed file with many quotes of comparison and
contrast of Emerson and Thoreau's idea on
nature, and the second one is the simplified version, created by our students,
with summary and the main idea of the work, and further links.
Links
on the Discussion Questions of the Works in This Period
Ralph
Waldo Emerson, Nature
(Word
File Version)
Ralph
Waldo Emerson, “The
American Scholar”
(Word
File Version)
Henry
David Thoreau, Walden 1
and 2
(Word File Version 1
and 2)
More Study Questions on
Emerson's Nature, American Scholar and Thoreau's Walden
Links
on the Authors of This Period
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William
Cullen Bryant--“To
a Waterfowl” (473)
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Ralph
Waldo Emerson--
Nature, Introduction, Chapters I, IV, V, VII, VIII
(496-/B1106-);
“The American Scholar” (525-38/B1135-);
“Each and All” (583/Handout)
- Henry
David Thoreau--Walden, Chapter 1
((868-71,
873, 876, 904-5 only/ B1807-1811, 1812-13, 1844-45 );
Chapters
2, 9, 17, 18 (910-/B1850-) ); Chapters 2, 9,
17, 18
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