Introduction to the primary texts
Observations on the growth of the mind / Sampson Reed
Preface to Aids to reflection / James Marsh
Amos Bronson Alcott, early journals
Prefect to Conversations with children
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, introduction
Introduction to individual voices
Amos Bronson Alcott, Journal entries, 1837
Margaret Fuller, "flaxman"
Henry David Thoreau, "Where I lived, and what I lived for," from Walden
3: The transcendental heritage
Introduction to the Transcendental heritage
Movements and institutions