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An introductory essay explaining the roots and basic ideas of Transcendentalism.
Includes a biography, photograph, and selected poems.
The Maine Historical Society presents biographical information and a database of poems.
An extensive biography, chat, message walls, comments on Poe's work and links to Poe sites.
The Library of Congress website honors Thoreau with an essay on his literary and philosophical contributions.
Organization to promote Thoreau's life and works through education, outreach, and advocacy. Includes membership information, activities and teacher resources.
Game board created as a way to help his daughters learn history, but developed into a marketable commodity that he hoped would sweep the country.
Detailed review of Twain's life and his attitude toward racial issues.
Detailed Library of Congress exhibit on Washington's life, work, and influence on American culture.
Creator of the Tuskegee University, read about the life of Booker T. Washington and his work "Up From Slavery".
Article by Daniel Hager from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
Hyper-linked biography of Washington with comments on his life by contemporaries.
To a Waterfowl, Sonnet- to an American Painter Departing for Europe, The Poet and Thanatopsis.
From The Century Illustrated Magazine 23, published November 1881. From Project Gutenberg.
A later work of Emerson's (1878) showing his move away from the radical individualism of his younger years and towards a spirituality of relationships.
A searchable version of Emerson's first collection of essays which includes History, Self-Reliance, Compensation, Spiritual Laws, Love, Friendship, Prudence, Heroism, The Over-Soul, Circles, Intellect, and Art.
Poem published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1857.
A brief biography and survey of online links of the American poet, and writer of horror, mystery and science fiction.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Louis Stevenson, and John Burroughs all wrote about Thoreau. Includes an essay on the relationship between Emerson and Thoreau.
A detailed biography of Thoreau by Lucius Furius.
Etext and study resources at the University of Virginia.
From the autobiography entitled We Are Many, by Ella Reeve Bloor.
Rob Couteau's biographical essay on the author, published in West Hills Review, 1985, explores the poet as an American ideal, focusing on his spirituality and politics.
Full text in HTML.
Full text in HTML.
HTML etexts of several short stories.
HTML version of Thoreau's essay.
Chapter-indexed HTML of the complete text. Includes a search feature and author biography.
Etext in page by page HTML format, from Classic Books Online .