Chronological Contents -- Note on the Texts -- Further Reading -- Introduction -- William Ellery Channing, "Likeness to God" (1828) -- Sampson Reed, "Genius" (1821 -- published 1849) -- Sampson Reed, Observations on the Growth of the Mind (1826) -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sermon CXXI (17 July 1831) -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Lord's Supper," Sermon CLXII (9 September 1832) -- Frederic Henry Hedge, "Coleridge's Literary Character" (March 1833) -- Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, from "Explanatory Preface," Record of a School (1836) -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (1836) -- Andrews Norton, "Letter to the Editor" (5 November 1836) -- George Ripley, from "Letter to the Editor" (9 November 1836) -- A. Bronson Alcott, The Doctrine and Discipline of Human Culture (1836) -- A. Bronson Alcott, from Conversations with Children on the Gospels (1836-1837) -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar" (1837) -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Introductory" (6 December 1837) to Human Culture lecture series -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Letter to Martin Van Buren" (14 May 1838) -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Divinity School Address" (1838) -- Andrews Norton, "The New School in Literature and Religion" (27 August 1838) -- Henry Ware, Jr., The Personality of the Deity (1838) -- "Levi Blodgett" [Theodore Parker], The Previous Question between Mr. Andrews Norton and His Alumni (1840) -- Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, "Woman" from "The Conversations of Margaret Fuller" (Spring 1840) -- Prospectus for The Dial (July 1840) -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Editors to the Reader" (July 1840) -- Margaret Fuller, "A Short Essay on Critics" (July 1840) -- A. Bronson Alcott, from "Orphic Sayings" (July 1840 and other dates) -- George Ripley, letter to Emerson (9 November 1840), and Emerson, letter to Ripley (15 December 1840) -- Sophia Ripley, "Woman" (January 1841) -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance" (1841).

Theodore Parker, A Discourse of the Transient and Permanent in Christianity (1841) -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Transcendentalist" (23 December 1841) -- Lidian Jackson Emerson, "Transcendental Bible" (1841?) -- Margaret Fuller, "The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women" (July 1843) -- A. Bronson Alcott and Charles Lane, "Fruitlands" (July 1843) -- William Henry Channing, "Introduction" to the Present (September 1843) -- Charles Lane and A. Bronson Alcott, "The Consociate Family Life" (8 September 1843) -- Henry David Thoreau, "A Winter Walk" (October 1843) -- Charles Lane, "Brook Farm" (January 1844) -- Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education, Constitution (1844) -- Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education, from Constitution, 2d ed. (1844) -- Margaret Fuller, "New Year's Day" (28 December 1844) -- George Ripley, Prospectus and "Introductory Notice" for the Harbinger (14 June 1845) -- Margaret Fuller, "The Wrongs of American Women. The Duty of American Women" (30 September 1845) -- William Ellery Channing -- "Gifts" -- "The River" -- "Sonnet XI" -- Christopher Pearse Cranch -- "Correspondences" -- "To the Aurora Borealis" -- "Enosis" -- John Sullivan Dwight -- "Sweet is the pleasure" -- "Music" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- "Hymn: Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836" -- "Each and All" -- "Uriel" -- "Hamatreya" -- "Ode, Inscribed to W. H. Channing" -- "Blight" -- "Threnody" -- "Brahma" -- "Days" -- "Two Rivers" -- "Terminus" -- Margaret Fuller -- "To the Same. A Feverish Vision" -- "Leila in the Arabian Zone" -- "Double Triangle, Serpent and Rags" -- "For the Power to whom we bow" -- "The Sacred Marriage" -- "Flaxman" -- "Meditations" -- "Sistrum" -- Frederic Henry Hedge, "Questionings" -- Ellen Sturgis Hooper -- "I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty".

"Better a sin which purposed wrong to none" -- Henry David Thoreau -- "Inspiration" -- "The Poet's Delay" -- "Rumors from an Æolian Harp" -- "Smoke" -- "Haze" -- "On fields oer which the reaper's hand has passd" -- "Brother where dost thou dwell?" -- "Conscience is instinct bred in the house" -- "Low-anchored cloud" -- Jones Very -- "Nature" -- "The Columbine" -- "The New Birth" -- "The Son" -- "The Song" -- "The Soldier of the Cross" -- "The Dead" -- "The Rail Road" -- "The Graveyard" -- "Flee to the Mountains" -- "The Eagles" -- "The Prisoner" -- "On Finding the Truth" -- Margaret Fuller, "Things and Thoughts in Europe. No. XVIII" (1 January 1848) -- Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government" (1849) -- Theodore Parker, A Sermon of the Public Function of Woman (1853) -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Seventh of March Speech on the Fugitive Slave Law, 7 March 1854" -- Henry David Thoreau, "Slavery in Massachusetts" (4 July 1854) -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Address at the Woman's Rights Convention, 20 September 1855" -- Henry David Thoreau, "A Plea for Captain John Brown" (30 October 1859) -- Theodore Parker, from Theodore Parker's Experience as a Minister (1859) -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Thoreau" (August 1862) -- James Freeman Clarke, from "Cambridge" (1891) -- Caroline Dall, from Transcendentalism in New England (1895) -- Bibliographies -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.