Excerpts from the author's poems, essays, letters and lectures, mostly about nature.

Text consists of t.p. and bibliographies from books published by Transcendental Books concerning American and New England Transcendentalism. Also includes the full text to Suggestions for your course in transcendentalism or the American renaissance, compiled by Kenneth Walter Cameron.

Discusses Gross's effort to integrate statistics and the computer into the humanities classroom at Amherst College.

Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) was a Romantic Socialist, a farmer and an advocate of the Simple Life, interested in Henry David Thoreau. A man of letters, he published over 20 books, including his collection of poems entitled Towards Democracy, and numerous additional articles. He campaigned through out his life on many issues of social concern, ranging from women's suffrage to the protection of the environment, from sexual emancipation to the formation...