Professor Miller has compiled an anthology of the writings of the
New England Transcendentalists that is at once surprisingly
interesting and, thanks to his illuminating introduction to each
selection, a brilliant dramatization of a major era in our
intellectual history.
*New Yorker*
Perry Miller has skillfully edited the articles, essays, poems, and
addresses of the New England transcendentalists, who roused such a
vital tempest in the Boston teacup in the romantic 1830s. In
compiling this anthology Mr. Miller has arranged the material to
give a clear view of the early beginnings of the transcendentalist
group, their flowering, and their disintegration.
*Saturday Review*
From his extremely skillful editing of the documents the
Transcendentalist controversy emerges as one of the major
intellectual battles of our history. He briefs us on its progress
in a masterly fashion, discriminating the moves so that we watch it
almost with the excitement of watching a play.
*The Nation*
The story of transcendentalism in terms of selections from the
writings of its chief proponents, and with representative comments
by its enemies, puts a solid foundation under a significant
episode… Professor Miller has skillfully retraced the lines of
battle in what was one of the most momentous conflicts of mind and
spirit that this country has known, a conflict unparalleled until
the intellectual crisis of the 1920s. He has supplied an
indispensable unit for the study of the intellectual, social, and
literary history of the United States… The anthology he has
compiled is a monument to the best sort of scholarship. It places
the past in true perspective and makes it live again.
*New York Herald Tribune Book Review*
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