Quote of the day by Ralph Waldo Emerson explains a message about success, failure, learning, and human nature. The quote “Win ...

NEWBURYPORT – John Buehrens, former Unitarian Universalist Association president and author of a new book, will give a free lecture at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 8 at the First Religious Society, ...

Limón, the 24th poet laureate of the U.S., urges the public to view poetry as a reminder of their shared humanity in this captivating lecture, which she delivered at the Library Continue reading » The ...

So goes a story about the Transcendentalists and my world. Reading Thoreau signaled, for me, the kind of intellectual loftiness I desperately longed for as a child of the uncultured American suburbs.

"Wait Whitman was a transcendentalist, a mystic, and a romanticist," said Professor Bliss Perry, in the seventh lecture of the series for the Radcliffe Endowment Fund, "A mystic," Professor Perry went ...

Concord’s Old Manse, 269 Monument St., presents “The Lure of Italy: Transcendentalists Abroad,” at 4:30 p.m. Oct. 4. This illustrated talk by the Rev. Jenny Rankin asks why the 19th-century writers ...