There is one author whose body of work explores all these themes: Henry David Thoreau ... Thoreau felt the same in his time. Thoreau tried to escape this feeling through transcendentalism.

A biography of a founding figure in the American Transcendentalist movement who was a touchstone for political dissent and environmental writing, by a leading scholar.

Concord, Massachusetts, has a vast literary past, being home to talents such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, Henry David Thoreau ... exponent of New England transcendentalism, would ...