The Transcendentalists by Perry G. Miller (Editor)Before the American Civil War, in Boston and its environs, a group of writers and thinkers belonging primarily to the Unitarian Church and its cultural milieu began to think and write in a new manner. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau are still well known today, but there were many others who created the context for their thought, and are scarcely known outside of scholarly circles: Margaret Fuller, James Freeman Clarke, Frederic Henry Hedge, Orestes A. Brownson, George Ripley, Jones Very. This is the first and only anthology to collect the works of these lesser-known lights and offer them to the wider public.